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— THE — 



Great Fourth Dominion, 

and the Coming Christ 

Her Adversary. 



By Rukxjs C. ^White. 



^'I will multiply similitudes." — Bible 
"A Thousand years is as one day." — Id. 



I.OvS ANGICIJCS, CAT,. 



The Library 
OF Congress 



WASHINGTON 






Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 18C6, 

BY RUFUS C. WHITE, 

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. 



Introdcactior^. 



In this little treatise, I propose, by the help of God 
and His spirit of Truth which the Lord promised to lead 
us into all truth, to set forth those portions of scripture 
that I think refer to the great Roman Dominion, divid- 
ing these references into those appertaining to this Do- 
minion as a whole, both under spiritual rulers as well as 
temporal, or I might say whether under Emperors or 
Popes, or perhaps better, whether considered as a Pagan 
power or a so-called Christian Dominion — and secondly, 
those that refer to His imperial, temporal, or Pagan 
Dominion more particularly; and lastly — I shall set forth 
those, I take it, that refer to His so-called Spiritual Do- 
minion, or that under the Popes. Then I shall aim to 
collate separately those portions of God's word that up- 
hold or condemn her doctrines — as the case may be. 
And after this, such portions as I judge refer to that uni- 
versal Dominion of Christ which, I take it, the scripture 
shows shall succeed soon upon that of Her destruction. 
But going before all these, in their proper order, I shall 
aim to set down all those scriptures which I think refer 
to those three universal and four great but lesser Do- 
minions that rose immediately^before that cf Rome, be- 
ginning with that of Nebuchednezzah or Babylon. — I 
will stop here to remark that we filed three great univer- 
sal Dominions preceding that of Rome, that of Nebuch- 
ednezzah or Babylon — that of Cyrus or the Medo- 



— 4 — 

Persian, as it is called, and the Macedonian or Grecian 
of Alexander — followed by the four lesser Dominions into 
which that of Alexander was broken, namely that of 
Cassander who ruled Macedonia, Lysimachus who took 
Thrace and Bythinia, Ptolemy who held Egypt, and Se- 
leucas Syria — which 4 Dominions, were soon consolidated 
in to the Kingdoms or Dominions of the Ptolemies, called 
the "King of the south," in scripture and the Syrian or 
Kingdom of the Selucidae which is called ''The king of 
the north" — It was on the fall of these last two that the 
fourth universal Dominion, that of Rome, and principally 
at first by the conquest at Pydna and Synoscephalae of 
the Macedonian Kingdom, that Rome arose and became 
the "Arbitress" and finally the mistress of the world — 
which Dominion she is destined to hold 'till Christ comes 
to set up the 5th — His universal Kingdom, that shall 
"never be destroyed nor left to others." 

Finally, it is my purpose to make such comments on 
or deduction from the matter herein collated as I think 
History and a true interpretation of God's word warrant, 
sometimes interjecting these comments by way of paren- 
thesis along with the scripture references, and in other 
places, noting them separately. With this outline plan 
to guide him, I trust the reader will find it easy and in- 
teresting at the same time, to wade through this deep 
"Mystery of Godliness," and its contrary the "Mystery 
of Iniquity," that grapples with it, and to feel at the 
end that he has been edified and built up somewhat in 
the faith of Jesus and in the knowledge of Truth, able to 
view Rome in her true light and aspect, and not in her 
disguise as she so craftily presents herself in her socalled 
church. 



Chapter 



I. 



Scriptures whicli I tliink refer to those 
four (4) universal Kingdoms preceding that of 
Christ on earth. 

Daniel, Chapter VII. 

1. In the first 3^ear of Belshazzar king of Babylon 
Daniel had a adream and visions of his head upon his 
bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the 
matters. 

2. Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by 
night, and, behold, the four winds of the heavens strove 
upon the great sea. 

3. And four great beasts came up from the sea, 
diverse one from another. 

4. The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: 
I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was 
lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet 
as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. 

5. And behold another beast, a second, like to a 
bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and // had three 
ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they 
said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. 

6. After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leo- 
pard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a 
fowl; the beast had also four heads: and dominion was 
given to it. 

7. After this I saw in the night visions, and behold 
a fourth beast dreadful and terrible, and strong exceed- 
ingly; and it had great iron teeth: it tlcvourcd and i)iake 
in pieces, and stamped the residue with llie teet ot it: 



— 6 — 

and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before 
it; and it had ten horns. 

8. I considered the horns, and, beheld, there came 
up among them another little horn, before whom there 
were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: 
and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, 
and a mouth speaking great things. 

9. I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and 
the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as 
snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his 
throne was like the firey flame, and his wheels a^ burning 
fire. 

10. A firey stream issued and came forth from be- 
fore him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and 
ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the 
judgment was set, and the books were opened. 

11. I beheld then because of the voice of the great 
words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast 
was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the 
burning flame. 

12. As concerning the rest of the beasts, the}^ had 
their dominion taken away: yet their lives were pro- 
longed for a a season and time. 

13. I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one 
like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, 
and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him 
near before him. 

14. And there was given him dominion, and glory, 
and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, 
should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting do- 
minion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom 
fkaf which shall not be destroyed. 



15. I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst 
of my body, and the visions of my head trouble me. 

16. I came near unto one of them that stood by, 
and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and 
made me know the interpretation of the things. 

17. These great beasts which are four, are four 
kings which shall arise out of the earth. 

18. But the saints of the most High shall take the 
kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever. 

19. Then I would know the truth of the fourth 
beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding 
dreadful, whose teeth were of'vcovL, and his nails ^ brass; 
which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue 
with his feet. 

20. And of the ten horns that wereiw his head, and 
^/ the other which came up, and before whom three fell; 
even o/that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake 
very great things, whose look was more stout than his 
fellows. 

21. I behold, and the same horn made war with 
the saints, and prevailed against them; 

22. Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment 
was given to the saints of the most High; and the time 
came that the saints possessed the kingdom. 

23. Thus be said, the fourth best shall be the 
fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from 
all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, aiul 
shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. 

24. And the ten horns out of tliis kingdom ^z/r ten 
kings ^ha^ shall arise: and another shall rise after them; 
and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall sub- 
due three kings. 



— 8 — 

25. And he shall speak great words against the 
most high, and shall wear out the saints of the most 
High, and think to change times and laws: and they 
shall be given unto his hand until a time and times and 
the dividing of time. 

26. But the judgment shall sit, and they shall 
take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it 
unto the end. 

27. And the kingdom and dominion, and the great- 
ness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be 
given to the people of the saints of the most High, 
whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all do- 
minions shall serve and obey him. 

28. Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me 
Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my coun- 
tenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my 
heart. 

Daniel IL 

27. Daniel answered in the presence of the king, 
and said, the secret which the king hath demanded 
cannot the wise vien, the astrologers, the magicians, the 
soothsayers, shew unto the king; 

28. But there is a God in Heaven that revealeth 
secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchednezzar 
what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the 
visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these; 

29. As for thee, O king,, thy thoughts came into 
thy 7nind upon thy bed, what should come to pass here- 
after: and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee 
what shall come to pass. 

30. But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me 
for a7iy wisdom that I have more than any living, but 
for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation 



— 9 — 

to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts 
of thy heart. 

31. Thou, O king, sawest, and beheld a great 
image. This great image, whose brigntness was excell- 
ent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. 

32. This image's head was of fine gold, his breast 
and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass; 

33. His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part 
of clay. 

34. Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out with- 
out hands, which smote the image upon his feet that 
were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. 

35. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the 
silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and be- 
came like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors; and 
the wind carried them away, that no place was found 
for them; and the stone that smote the image became a 
great mountain, and filled the whole earth. 

36. This is the dream; and we will tell the inter- 
pretation thereof before the king. 

37. Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God 
of Heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and 
strength, and glory. 

38. And wheresoever the children of men dwell 
the beasts of the field and the fowls of the Heaven 
hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler 
over them all. Thou art this head of gold. 

39. And after thee shall arise another kingdom 
inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, 
which shall bear rule over all the earth. 

40. And the fourth kingdom shall he strong as 
iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and suhducth 



— 10 — 

all thiyigs'. and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it 
break in pieces and bruise. 

41. And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, 
part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall 
be divided: but there shall be in it of the strength of 
the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with 
miry clay. 

42. And ^j- the toes of the i^^\,were part of iron, 
and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, 
and partly broken. 

43. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry 
clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: 
but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is 
not mixed with clay. 

44. And in the days of these kings the God of 
Heaven shall set up a kingdom, which shall never be 
destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other 
people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all 
these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. 

45. Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was 
cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake 
in pieces the iron, the brass, the silver, and the gold* 
The God of Heaven hath made known to the king what 
shall come to pass liereafter: and the dream is certain, 
and the interpretation thereof sure. 



18. Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and be- 
held four horns. 

19. And I said uhto the angel that talked with me, 
what be these? And he answered me, these are the horns 
which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem. 

20. And the Lord shewed me four carpenters. 



— n — 

2 1 . Then said I, What come these to do? And he 
spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered 
Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are 
ccme to fray them, to cut out the horns of the Gentiles, 
which lifted up tkeir horn over the land of Judah to 
scatter it. — Zeckanai 1,18:20. 



And I beheld, and lo, in the midst of the throne 
and of the four beasts, stood a lamb as it had been slain, 
having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven 
spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. — Jiev. 5;^. 



I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a 
red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that 
were in the bottom, and behind him there were red 
horses, speckled horses, and white horses. 

And I said O my Lord, what are these, and the an- 
gel that talked with me said, I will shew thee what 
these be. 

And the man that stood among the myrtle trees 
answered and said. These are they whom the Lord hath 
sent to walk to and fro through the earth. 

And they answered the angel that stood among the 
myrtle trees, and said, we have walked to and frotlirough 
the earth, and behold all the earth standeth still, and 
is at rest. 

(This indicates that when these fonr have 
finished their walk in the earth or have passed 
from the stage of action, tlie niillcnniuni or 
great Sabbath will be at hand, and all the 
earth be '^at rest.")— Zrr//. /:S-//. 



— 12 — 

(As Christ was to set up his first and 
spiritual kingdom at some time during the life 
of these four beasts, or during the existence 
of these four dominions in the world, this slain 
lamb is ver}^ properl}' located as we see in the 
''77iidst of the four beasts'' to indicate this fact.) 



Chapter 2. 
As TO Nebuchadnezza's Kingdom or that 

OF BABYI.ON ALONE. 



Dan, "J '.2-28, 

Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, 
and, behold, the four winds of the Heavens strove upon 
the great sea. 

And four great beasts came up from the sea diverse 
one from another. 

The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: 
I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and is was 
lifted up from the earth, and made stand up on the feet 
as a man, and a mans heart was given unto it. — 
Dan. ^.-3 1-3(5'. 



Thou, O king, savest, and beheld a great image, 
this image whose brightness was excellent stood before 
thee: and the form thereof was terrible. 

This images' head was of fine gold. This is the 
dream, and we will tell the interpretation thereof before 
the king. Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the 
God of Heaven hath given thee a Kingdom, power and 
strength and glory. Thou art this head of gold. Isa. X. 



12. Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the 
Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion 
and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout 
heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high 
looks. 



— 14 — 

13- For he saith, By the strength of my hand I 
have done it and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and 
I have removed the bounds of the people, and have 
robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabi- 
tantr like a reliant mau: 

14. And my hand hath found as a nest the riches 
of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, 
have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that 
moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. 

15. Shall the ax boast itself against him that hew- 
eth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against 
him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself 
against them that lift it up or as if the staff should lift 
up itself as if it were no wood. 

16. Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, 
send among his fat ones leanness: and under his glory 
he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. 



Da7iiel V, 

25. And this is the writing that was written. 
MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIX. 

26. This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; 
God hath numbered tb}^ kingdom, and finished it. 

27. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, 
and found wanting. 

28. PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given 
to the Medes and Persians. 

29. Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed 
Daniel with scarlet, and/>/// a chain of gold about his 
neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he 
should be the third ruler in the kingsom. 

30. In that night was Belshazzar the king of the 
Chaldeans slain. 



— 15 — 

31. And Darius the Median took the kingdom, 
being about threescore and two years old. 



Jeremiah L, 

35. A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the 
lyORD, and upon the inhabitants of Bab3don, and upon 
her princes, and upon her wise men. 

36. A sword is upon the liars; and they shall 
dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall 
be dismayed. 

37. A sword is upon their horses, and upon their 
chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the 
midst of her; and they shall become as women; a sword 
is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed. 

38. A drought // upon hei waters; and they shall 
be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and 
they are mad upon their idols. 

39. Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the 
wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls 
shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited 
for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to 
generation. 

40. As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrali and 
the neighbour «//V^ thereof , saith the I^ord; so sliall no 
man abide there neither sliall any son of man dwell 
therein. 

41. Behold, a people shall come from tlie north, 
and a great nation, and many kings sliall be saised up 
from the coasts of tlie earth. 

42. They sliall hold the bow and the liince: they 
are cruel, and will not shew mercy: tlieir voice shall 
roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon liorses. <'vrry 



— 16 — 

cue put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, 

daughter of Babylon. 

43. The king of Babylon hath heard the report 
of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took 
hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail. 

44. Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the 
swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but 

1 will make them suddenly run away from her: and who 
is a chosen man^ that I may appoint over her? for who is 
like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is 
that shepherd that will stand before me? 

45. Therefore hear ye the counsel of the I^ord, 
that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, 
that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: 
Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out; surely 
he shall make their habitation desolate with them. 

46. At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth 
is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations 




Chapter 3. 

As To The Medo Persian Kingdom (of 
Cyrus) Alone. 



Daniel VI L 

Four great beasts came up from the sea, differing 
one from another. 

And behold a second like to a bear, and it raised 
itself up on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth 
of it between the teeth of it, and they said this to it; 
arise devour much flesh. 

The three ribs perhaps stand for Media 
Persia and Babylon, kingdoms which Cyrus 
ruled, or may be for Minni, Ararat, and 
Aschenaz. 



Daniel II. 
Thou O king sawest and behold a great image — 
This images breast and arms of silver — 
These 2 arms and the breast, no doubt 
symbolize Minni, Ararat and Aschenaz, con- 
stituting the kingdom, as mentioned in Jera- 
miah. 

And after thee (Nebuchadnezzah) shall arise an- 
other kingdom inferior to this (as silver is inferior to 
gold), The Medo Persian. 



— 18 — 

Jeremiah LL 

Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet 
among the nations, prepare the nations against her 
(That is Babylon) call together against her the king- 
doms of Ararat, Minni and Aschenaz(That is the Medo 
Persian Kingdom — which no doubt comprised these 
three, whence it may come that this silver kingdom was 
symbolized by the two arms and the breast of a man.) 

Appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to 
come up as the rough caterpillar. 

Prepare against her the Nations with the kings of 
the Medes (Cyrus and Darius) the captain thereof and 
all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion, 
and the land shall tremble and sorrow; for every purpose 
of the land shall be performed against Babylon to make 
the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant. 

The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, 
they have remained in their holds; their might has 
failed: they became as women: they have found her 
dwelling places: her bands are baoken. 

The post shall run to meet another, and one mess- 
enger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that 
his city is taken at one end. — 

39. ''In their heat I will make their feasts, and 
I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice and 
sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, saith the Lord." 



Read an account of the capture of Babylon by 
Cyrus, by diverting the river, and coming in by the 
passages of it, while Belshazzah and his lords caroused 
in drunken revelry, drinking from the golden vessels 
of Gods sanctuary, till the handwriting appeared on the 
wall. 



— 19 — 

Then I lifted up mine eyes and behold there stood 
before the river a ram, which nad two horns (Media 
and Persia) and the two horns were high: but one was 
higher than the other, and the higher came up last. 

I saw the ram pushing, westward and northward^ 
and southward: so that no beast might stand before him: 
but he did according to his will and became great. 

And as I was considering, a he goat (Alexander) 
came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and 
he came to the ram that had two horns, and cast him 
down and stamped on him. — Dan, S-j-y, 



The ram which thou sawest having two horns are 
the kings of Media and Persia. — Dan. 8:20. 



— -r^m- 



Chapter 4. 

References to the Kingdom of Mace- 
DONiA OR OF Alexander Alone. (Some- 
times CALLED Grecia.) 



Daniel II. 

31. Thou O king sawest and behold a great image. 

32. His belly and his thighs of brass — 

39. And after thee (Nebuchednezzah) shall arise 
another kingdom inferior to thee (Medo Persian) and 
another third kingdom of brass, which shall bare rule 
over all the earth (Alexander.) 



After this I beheld, and lo, another like a leopard, 
which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl: 
the beast had also four heads (standing for the 4 frag- 
ments into which it was broken): and dominion was 
given to it. — Dan, y.-G. 



These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, 
which shall arise out of the earth. — Da?t. 7:17^ 



Therefore the he goat waxed very great; and when 
he was strong the great horn was broken (Alexander 
died in the height of his power) and for it came up 
four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven, 
(i. e. His kingdom was divided into four parts between 
his generals). — Dan. 8:8. 



— 21 — 

And the rough goat is the king of Grecia (Macedon) : 
and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first 
king (Alexander). — Dan, 8:21. 



Dan. 11:2-4.. 

And now will I show thee the Truth. Behold there 
shall stand up yet 3 kings in Persia: and the fourth shall 
be far richer than they all: and by his strength through 
his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Gre- 
cia (Xerxes crossed the Hellespont etc.) And a mighty 
king shall stand up that shall rule with a great dominion 
(Alexander) and when he shall stand up his kingdom 
shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four 
winds of Heaven, and not to his posterity nor accord- 
ing to his dominion which he ruled; for his kingdom 
shall be plucked up even for others besides those. 
(Roxana and the child did not get the kingdom in any 
true sense.) 

His dominions were divided between his 
four genarals, Cassander taking Macedonia, 
LysimactLus Thrace and Bythinia, Ptolemy 
Egypt, and Selucas Syria. — These four finally 
merged into that of Syria called the king ot the 
north, and that of the Ptolemies in Egypt, 
called in the scripture, the king of the south — 
These were soon devoured by Rome —which by 
winning the battle of Cynoscephalae (16H B. C.) 
in Macedonia, became thereby the arbitress of 
the world and soon its sole mistress, thus set- 
ting up the 4th and last universal temporal 



— 22 

dominion that shall be. — As Rome won her 
precedence by this victory, of such great im- 
port to her destiny, hence in giving the account 
of her rise the words we find are there: there- 
fore the he goat (Alexander) waxed very strong 
and when it was strong the great horn was 
broken: and for it came up four notable ones 
toward the four winds of Heaven (Seluecas, 
Cassander, Lysimachus, Ptolemy) and out of 
one of them (that is out of Macedonia, Cass- 
ander's dominion) came forth a little horn (not 
much known at that time) which waxed ex- 
ceeding great toward the south (Egypt) and 
toward the east (Syria) and toward the pleas- 
ant land (Palestine, Gods country, captured by 
Pompey B. C. 65) — and so it goes on: It 
waxed great (Rome did) even to the host of 
heaven (that is prevailed over the mighty and 
holy people, Gods people, the Jews) and it cast 
down some of the host and of the stars (notable 
Jews like the Maccabees and Josephus and 
Peter and Paul.) Yea he magnified himself 
even to the Prince of the Host (sometimes 
called the Prince of the covenant, that is, of 
course, our Lord Jesus Christ, whom Pilate 
the Roman governor by his authority crucified) 
and by him (that is by Titus) the daily sacri- 
fice was taken away and the place of His 
sanctuary cast down (A. D. 70 when Titus took 



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Jerusalem, burned Gods sanctuary or temple, 
and the Jews have never had a daily sacrifice 
since.) 

All this leads to the inevitable conclusion, 
leaving not the least scintilla of doubt, that 
Rome was the fourth beast or the fourth 
universal dominion spoken of under the simili- 
tude of the fourth beast, or beast with seven 
heads and ten horns, so often referred to in 
scripture. In every minute particular, as to 
her origin and all her history, in outline, from 
the beginning until she shall end (with the end 
of this Papal power on earth) God has drawn 
her photograph and also refers to her teaching, 
alleging that she shall ^Cast the Truth to the 
ground," or shall deceive the world by her teach- 
ing thus putting on such as are so deceived by 
her church the '^nark of the beast. — Rev^ /j>. 

This beast is said to have seven heads and 
ten horns and is to be followed by another 
which shall '^subdue three kings," or whose 
dominion shall '^pluck up by the roots" three 
of these ten horns, or, in other words, shall ab- 
sorb and rest upon — three of these ten do- 
minions that the ten ten horns symbolize. 
This lesser beast is the papal authority, which 
was the real ruler of the Holy Roman Kmpirc, 
as it is called — which Charlemagne established, 
and which included h'raiicc, Geriiunn- and 



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Italy; these also are the three heads of the 
eagle referred to in 2nd Esdras ii and 12. 
The ten horns on the first beast (Imperial 
Rome) are the ten kingdoms that constituted 
her Empire — that is Spain, France (or Gaul) 
Italy, Germania, (or Germany) Ill^'rian frontier 
(including the Greek states) Asia, Syria (in- 
cluding Palestine,) Eg}'pt, Africa, and Britain 
exactly ten — being all the inhabited earth. 
Seven heads may symbolize better the seven spe- 
cies of government that were to be exercised in 
her, namely, Kings, Consuls, Decemvirs, Trian- 
virs Dictators, Emperors and Popes) or else they 
may stand for the seven hills or mountains on 
which she has "her seat'' — whence she is called 
the Seven-Hilled city that from her throne of 
beaut}^ ruled the world. When she is called, as 
to her church or Papal dominion, the great 
whore that commits omication with the kings 
of the earth, is only ajiotJur way of sa^ang that 
she tangles herself up in the politics of all 
Nations, more engaged in this worldlj^ occu- 
patian than in even pretending to save souls. 
These seven hills are called the mountains on 
which the woman sits, when she is s\'mbolized by 
a woman clothed in scarlet, like her great car- 
dinals, etc. How true is it also to saj' that 
with all her other traffic, she traffics in the 
*'souls of men,'' or as Peter sa3's she ''makes 



\ 



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mercliandise of men," for a profit having in- 
vented a Purgatory, thus leading and holding 
men to die in their sins, aud be sold thus by 
deception to hell. — 

I saw the ram pushing westward and northward and 
southward: so that no beast might stand before him; but 
he did according to his will and became great (Medo 
Persian.) 

And as I was considering, behold a he goat (Alex- 
ander) came from the west on the face of the whole earth, 
and touched not the ground (Read Plutarch's Lives, as 
to Alexander's rapid marches;) and the goat had a nota- 
ble horn between his eyes (what a brain that Alexander 
had!) and he came to the ram that had two horns 
(Media and Persia) and was moved with choler against 
him, and smote the ram and brake his two horns (Read 
how Alexander whipped Darius.) 



^^^ 



Chapter 5. 

Those scriptures principally relating to 
Darius and Alexander (or Medo Persian and 
Grecian) Conjointly. 



Daniel VIII. 

1. In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar 
a vision appeared unto me, even ttnto me Daniel, after 
that which appeared unto me at the first. 

2. And I saw a vision; and it came to pass, when 
I saw, that I was at a Shushan in the palace, which is 
in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I 
was by the river of Ulai. 

3. Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, be- 
hold, there stood before the river a ram which had two 
horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher 
than the other, and the higher came up last. 

4. I saw the ram pushing westward, and north- 
ward, and southward; so that no beast might stand 
before him, neither was there aiiy that could deliver out 
of his hand; but he did according to his will, and be- 
came great. 

5. And as I was considering, behold, an he goat 
came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and 
touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable 
horn between his eyes. 

6. And he came to the ram that had two horns, 
which I had seen standing before the river, and ran 
unto him in the fury of his power. 



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7- And I saw him come close unto the ram, and 
he was moved, with choler against him, and smote the 
ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power 
in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to 
the ground, and stamped upon him and there was none 
that could deliver the ram out of his hand. 

8. Therefore the he goat waxed very great, and 
when he was strong, the goat born was broken; and for 
it these came up four notable ones toward the four winds 
of heaven. 



And he said, Behold, I will make Thee known what 
shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the 
true appointed the end should be. 

The ram which than sawest having two horns are 
the kings of Media and Persia: and the rough he goat 
is the king of Grecia. 

Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for 
it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but 
not in his power. — Dan. 8:ig-22. 



Chapter 6. 

As to those four Minor dominions suc- 
ceeding to that of Alexander the Great — viz., 
Those of Cassander, Lysimachus, Ptolemy, and 
Seleucas. 



And a mighty king shall stand up that shall rule 
with great dominion, and do according to his will. 
(Alexander the great. ) And when he shall stand up 
his kingdom shall be broken and shall be divided 
toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his pos- 
terity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled; for 
his kingdom shall be plucked up even for others 
besides these. (i. e. for his four generals.) — Dan, 
11:3-4- 



After this I beheld, and lo, another like a leopard, 
which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; 
The beast had also four heads; and dominion was given 
to it. — Dan 6:7, 



Therefore the he goat waxed very great; and when 
he was strong the great horn was broken: and for it 
came up four notable ones toward the four winds of 
heaven. — Da7i. 8:8. 



And the rough he goat is the king of Grecia, 
(Macedonia); and the great horn that is between his 
eyes is the first king (Alexander.) Now that being 
broken, whereas four-stood up in its stead, four king- 
doms shall arise out of the nation but not in his power. 
(Not of Alexanders posterity.) — Daii. 21:22. 



Chapter 7. 

As to Ptolemy's kingdom of Egypt called 
the ^'king of the south," and of the Syrian 
kingdom, or that of the Seleucidae or succes- 
sors of Seleucas, called the ^^king of the north," 
and of their contests with each other and the 
Roman power which absorbed them. 



Daniel 11:4.-16. 

1. And when he shall stand up (that is Alexander 
the Great) his kingdom shall be broken and shall be 
divided towards the four winds of heaven. 

That is given to his four generals, to 
each a part. 

No^v these four dominion were mostly 
merged later on into that of Syria (king of the 
north) and Egypt (king of the south); and so 
the narrative goes on: 

And the king of the south shall be strong, and one 
of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and 
have dominion: and his dominion shall be a great 
dominion. 

2. And in the end of the years the}^ shall join 
themselves together; for the Kings daughter of the 
south (Berenice) shall come to the King of the north to 
make an agreement; but she shall not retain the power 
of the arm; neither shall he stand nor liis arm: but she 
shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he 
that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these 
times. 



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But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up 
in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall 
enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall 
deal against them, and shall prevail, 

And shall also carry captives into Egypt, their 
gods, with their princes, and with their precious 
vessels of silver and gold; and he shall continue more 
years than the king of the north. 

(The Romans conquered Syria before they 
did Egypt.) 

So the King of the south shall come into his king- 
dom and shall return into his own land. But his sons 
shall be stirred up and shall assemble a multitude of 
great forces: and one shall certainly come, and over- 
flow, and pass through; then shall he return and be 
stirred up to his fortress. 

And the king of the south shall be moved with 
choler, and shall come forth and fight with him, even 
with the King of the north: and he shall set forth a 
great multitude; but the multitute shall be given into 
his hand. 

And when he hath taken away the multitude his 
heart shall be lifted up; and he shall cast down many 
ten thousands; but he shall not be strengthened by it. 

For the King of the north shall return, and shall 
set forth a multitude greater than the former, and shall 
certainly come after many years with a great army and 
with much riches. 

And in those times then shall many stand up 
against the King of the south; Also the robbers of the 
people — shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; 
but they shall fail. 

Here the Romans appear first npon this 
great stage of action who are destined after 
this to rob and desolate Jerusalem; ^^but they 
shall fail," that is, in due time; so the ''eternal 
city" is NOT eternal. 



— 31 — 

So the king of the north ' shall come and cast up a 
maunt and take the most fenced cities; and the arms of 
the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, 
neither shall there be any strength to withstand. 

About this time comes in the history of 
the Maccabees, which see in the Apochrypha. 

But he (Romans) that cometh against him shall do 
according to his own will, and none shall stand before 
him; (Pompey.) And he shall stand in the glorious 
land, (Palestine) which by his hand shall be consumed. 
(B. C. 63.) 



Now the Roman power is fully launched in 
this prophesic history and the remaider of this 
11th chapter of Daniel gives her photograph, 
often in detail, but mainly in grand outline, in- 
cluding all her work in the world as the fourth 
beast that shall hinder Christ's kingdom, and 
andnot only DKSOTATE the earth by her sword 
but '^cast the truth to the ground" by her FALSE 
TEACHINGS — MAKING for herself ^'a strange 
god", a state god, ''the god of forces", an invisi- 
ble god and yet NOT the true god of Israel and 
the Bible; and while pretenting and seeming to 
aid and favor Him, it shall in rkalitv cast to 
the ground by every means in licr power the 
''truth as it is in Jesus," and shall ever oppress 
those who choose to be "free men in Christ 
Jesus", having Christ alouc for "I.ord and 
Master." 



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Chapter 8. 
References to the fourth great universal 
dominion on earth, the FIERCEST and STRONGEST 
of all, that of Rome, as to her whole dominion 
— unto the end — with references to follow which 
more especially refer to each of the two 
GRAND divisions into which God in his word 
has divided this her whole dominion — namely 
that under Kings, Consuls Triumvirs, Decem- 
virs, Dictators and Emperors, six, which token 
together, we call her Pagan, Temporal, or Im- 
perial dominion; and finally we shall discuss, 
that under the Popes, which is called, for conven- 
ience, her spiritual Dominion, or Papal power, 
but which is and ever has been in truth only a 
great Political power with the pope as its head, 
but which masquerades as a church of Christ or 
spiritual power the better to accomplish its 
ever ambitions designs, its purpose to rule or 
ruin. 



Daniel VII. 
Daniel spake and said I saw in my vision by night, 
and behold the four winds of heaven drove upon the great 
sea (a picture of the commotion among nations, the striv- 
ings of the peoples.) And four great beasts came up 
from the sea, different one from another. 

(After describing the three beasts that pre- 
ceeded Rome, which is the fourth, it goes on;) 



— 33 — 

After this I saw in the night visions, and behold 
a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceed- 
ingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake 
in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and 
it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and 
it had ten horns. 

I considered the horn, and behold there came up 
among them a little horn before whom there were three 
(3) of the first plucked tcp by the roots; and behold in 
this horn were eyes, and a mouth speaking great words. 

(Popes, claiming to be vicars of God and 
infallible, etc.) 

And I beheld till the throne were cast down, and the 
Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as 
snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool: his throne 
was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. 

A fiery stream issued and came forth before him: 
thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thou- 
sand times ten thousand stood before him; the judgment 
was set and the books were opened. 

And I beheld then, because of the voice of the great 
words which the horn spake, I beheld even till the beast 
was slain, and his body destroyed and given to the burn- 
ing flame. 

And concerning the rest of the beasts, their dominion 
was taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a 
season and a time. 

I saw in the night visions, and behold, one like tlie 
vSon of Man came with the clouds of heaven and came to 
the Ancient of days, and they brought him near l>efore 
him. 

And there was given him (Christ) (U>ininio!i and 
glory, that all ])cople, nations, antl languages sluniUl 



— 34 — 

serve hz7?i; his dominion is an everlasting dominion 
which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which 
shall not be destroyed, (Millennial kingdom) I Daniel was 
greived in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the 
visions of my head troubled me. 

I came near unto one of them that stood by and 
asked him the truth of all this, so he told me and made 
me know the interpretation of the things. 

INTERPRETATION. 

17. These great beasts which are four are four 
kings which shall arise out of the earth. 

But the saints of the Most High shall take the king- 
dom and possess the kingdom yi?r ever even for ever and 
ever. (The meek inheriting the earth.) 

Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, 
which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dread- 
ful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; 
which devoured, and broke in pieces, and stamped the 
residue with his feet. 

And the ten horns that were in his head, and of the 
other which came up, and before which three fell; even 
of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very 
great things, whose look ^2iS more stotitXh^in his fellows. 
This horn claimed and was thought by 
many to have, all the help of God. 

And I beheld and the same horn made war with 
the saints, and prevailed against them: 

Does not this show the Roman Catholic 
cliurch as an enemy and persecutor of Jesus? 

Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was 
given to the saints of the Most High; and the ti77ie came 
that the saiiits possessed the kingdo7n. 



— 35 — 

Thus he said the fourth beast shall be the fourth 
kingdom upon earth, and shall tread it down and break 
it in pieces. (Conquer all nations.) 

And the ten horns of this kingdom are ten kings 
that shall arise; and anof/ier shall rise after them: and 
he shall be diverse from the first and he shall subdue 
three kings. 

(Germany, France and Italy, as the Holy 
Roman Empire?) 

And he shall speak greet words against the Most 
High, and shall wear aid the saints oi the Most High 
and think to change times and laws', and they shall be 
givenintohis hands, until a time, times, and the dividing 
of times. (1260 years probably.) 

But the judgment shall sit (of the Powers, after 
Waterloo) and they shall take away his dominion, to 
consume and to destroy it unto the e?id. (It shall gradu- 
ally perish ajter Waterloo.) 

And the kingdom and dominion and the greatness 
of the kingdom, under the whole heaven, shall be given 
to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose 
kingdom is an everlasting one and all dominion shall 
serve and obey Him. (Jesus. ) 

Hitherto is the end of the matter. 



Rev. XIIl. 

1. And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw 
a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and 
ten horns, and upon his liorns ten crowns, ami upon his 
heads the namo of plasphemy. 

2. And the l)east which I saw was like unto a 
leopard, and iiis feet were as the feet of a bear, ami his 



— 36 — 

mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him 
his power, and his seat, and great authority. 

3. And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded 
to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the 
world wondered after the beast. 

4. And they worshiped the dragon which gave 
power unto the beast: and they worshiped the beast, 
saying, Who is like unto the beast? w^ho is able to make 
war with him? 

5. And there was given unto him a mouth speak- 
ing great things and blasphemies; and power was given 
unto him to continue forty a7id two months. 

6. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy 
against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, 
and them that dwell in heaven. 

7. And it was given unto him to make war with 
the saints, and to overcome them; and power was given 
him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. 

8. And all that dwell upon the earth shall wor- 
ship him, whose names are not written in the book of 
life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 

9. If any man have an ear, let him hear. 

10. He that leadeth into captivity shall go into 
captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed 
with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of 
the saints. 

11. And I beheld another beast coming up out of 
the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he 
spake as a dragon. 

12. And he exercised all the power of the first 
beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which 
dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly 
wound was healed. 



13- And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh 
fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of 
men, 

14. And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth 
by the means ^ those miracles v/hich he had power to do 
in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on 
the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, 
which had the wound by a sword, and did live. 

15. And he had power to give life unto the image 
of the beast, that the image of the beast should both 
speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the 
image of the beast should be killed. 

16. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich 
and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their 
right hand, or in their foreheads: 

17. And that no man might buy or sell, save he 
that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the 
number of his name. 

18. Here is a wisdom. Let him that hath under- 
standing count the number of the beast: for it is tiie 
number of a man; and his number is Six hundred three- 
score and six. 



If the seven heads symbolize, as we think, 
they do, the seven species of Doniinion that were 
to make up Rome's total life and history — it 
was the sixth head that received this seeming 
^^deadly wound," namely that of the Kmpire 
or, in other words, it was wliile Rome was tin- 
der the Emperors tliat God had dccrccch th:it 
tlie Huns, Goths, and Yandahs under Ahiric 
and Attila were to come ahont A. I). .\oo and 



— 38 — 

give her such ^'a wound'' that all the world 
'Svondered" when she survived it and arose to a 
high estate again under the seventh and last 
heads, that of the popes — and so till survives 
and shall ''practice and prosper" in wicked 
devices until the Son of man by the ^^brightness 
of his coming" or by His approach shall de- 
stro}^ the last remnant of her power in earth, 
which event is evidently near at hand. 

Daniel XI: 14-4.4. 

14. And in those times there shall many stand up 
against the king of the south: also the robbers of thy 
people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; 
but they shall fall. 

15. So the king of the north shall come, and cast 
up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the 
arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen 
people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand. 

16. But he that cometh against him shall do 
according to his own will, and none shall stand before 
him: and he shall stand in the glorious land, which by 
his hand shall be consumed. 

17. He shall also set his face to enter with the 
strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with 
him; thus shall he do: and he shall give him the 
daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not 
stand on Ids side, neither be for him. 

18. After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, 
and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf 
shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; with- 
out his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him. 



— 39 — 

19- Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of 
his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be 
found. (Julius Caesar. ) 

20. Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of 
taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days 
he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle. 

21. And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, 
to whom they shall not give the honor of the kingdom: 
but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom 
by flatteries. 

22. And with the arms of a flood shall they be over- 
flown from before him, and shall be broken ;yea, also the 
Prince of the covenant. 

23. And after the league made with him he shall 
work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become 
strong with a small people. 

24. He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest 
places of the province; and he shall do that which his' 
fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fatliers; he shall 
scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, 
and he shall forcast his devices against the strong holds, 
even for a time. 

25. And he shall stir up his power and his courage 
against the king of the south with a great army; and 
the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a 
very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: 
for they shall forcast devices against him. 

26. Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat 
shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow: ond 
many shall fall down slain. 

27. And both these kings' hearts shall be to do 
mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it 
shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time 
appointed. 



— 40 — 

28. Then shall he return into his land with great 
riches; and his heart shall be against the holy covenant; 
and he shall do exploits, and return to his own land. 

29. At the time appointed he shall return, and 
come toward the south; but it shall not be as the 
former, or as the latter. 

30. For the ships of Chittim shall come against 
him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and 
have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he 
do: he shall even return, and have intelligence with 
them that forsake the holy covenant. 

31. And arms shall stand on his part, and they 
shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take 
away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abom- 
ination that maketh desolate. 

32. And such as do wickedly against the covenant 
shall be corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do 
know their God shall be strong, and do exploits, 

33. And they that understand among the people 
shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, 
and b}^ flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days. 

34. Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen 
with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with 
flatteries. 

35. And so7?ie of them of understanding shall fail, 
to try them, and to purge, and to make the77t white, even' 
to the time of the end: because it is for a time ap- 
pointed. 

36. And the king shall do according to his w^ill; 
and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above 
every god, and shall speak marvellous things against 
the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation 
be accomplished: for that that is determined shall 
be done. 



— 41 — 

37- Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, 
nor the desire of woman, nor regard any god: for he 
shall magnify himself above all. 

38. But in his estate shall he honour the God of 
forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he 
honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, 
and pleasant things. 

39. Thus shall he do in the most strong liolds 
with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and 
increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule 
over many, and shall divide the lands for gain. 

40. And at the time of the end shall the king of 
the south push at him: and the king of the north shall 
shall come against him like a whirwind, with chariots 
and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall 
enter into the countries and shall over-flow and pass 
over. 

41. And he shall enter into the glorious land, and 
many countries shall be over thrown; but these shall 
escape out of her hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the 
chief of the Children of Ammon. 

42. He shall strech forth his hand upon the coun- 
tries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. 

43. But he shall have power over the treasures of 
gold and of silver, and over all the precious thin^^^s of 
Egypt; and the Libyians and Ethiopians shall be at 
his steps. 

(Was this fulfilled in Napoleon's career in 
Egypt and the l]ast, or is this of events yQ\. to 
come?) 

44. But tidings out of the east und out ol the north 
shall trou])le him; therefore he shall go forth with i;reat 
fury to destroy and utterly to make way many. 



45- And he shall plant the tabernacles of his 
palace between tlie seas in the glorious holy mountain; 
3"et he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. 



J 



Dajiiel XII: i. 

And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great 
prince which standeth for the children of thy people; 
and there shall be a time of trouble such as never was 
since there was a nation even to that same time: and at 
that time thy people shall be delivered every one that 
shall be found written in the book. 



Note here that every time the sj^mbols 
show this fourth one, the great Roman power, 
''come to its end^'' — right succeeding it, as being 
near at hand, ever looms up the coming Christ 
and the first ressurrection which, I think, will 
probabl}^ take place about A. D. 2370, at the 
time when Daniel in Chapt. 8, verses 13 and 14 
shows that the ''sanctuary wuU be cleansed!' I 
find many things in scripture that lead me to 
the conclusion that the coming of Christ and 
the cleansed sancttcary are nearh' synchronous^ if 
not identical, events. If the sanctuary (of 
Christ body) was defiled A. D. 33 when Christ 
was on the cross then the 2300 da^'s will bring 
us to A. D. 2333, but if it refers to the defiling 
of the Temple by Titus A. D. 70, as it may, 
then 2370 A. D. w^ould be the date. By reason 
of this UNCERTAINTY of the ''termiuus a quo," 



— 43 — 

which I think \n2.s purposely thus left uncertain, 
it probably was that Jesus said no man could 
know the ''day nor the hour" of his coming, 
but could know when it was ''nigh, even at 
the doors." 



Esdras XL 

Then saw I a dream, and behold, there came up 
from the sea an eagle^ which had twelve feathered 
wings, and three heads. (Rome.) 

And I saw, and beheld, she spread her wings over 
all the earth, and all the winds of the air IdIcw on her, 
and were gathered together. 

And I beheld, and out of her feathers there grew 
other contrary feathers; and they became little feathers 
and small. (Opposing powers.) 

But her heads were at rest: the head in the midst 
was greater than the other, yet rested (or waited) it 
with the residue. 

Moreover, I beheld, and lo, the eagle flew witli her 
feathers, and reigned upon the earth and over them 
that dwelt therein. 

And I saw that all things under heaven were sub- 
ject unto her, and no man spake against her, no not one 
creature upon the earth. 

And I belieUl, and lo, the ea^le rose upon her 
talons, and spake to her feather (^wings) saying, 

Watch not all at once; sleep every one in his own 
place, and watch by course : 

But let the heads be preserved for ihe last. (Papal 
power or Holy Roinayi Umpire. ) 

And I beheld, and lo, the voice 7cent not out of her 
heads, but from the Diidst of her body. And I numbered 



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her contraiy feathers, and, behold, there were eight of 
them (Gods, Vandalo, etc.) And I looked, and behold, 
on the right side there arose one feather (or wing) and 
reigned over all the earth; (Julius Caesar.) 

And it was so, that when it had reigned, the end of 
it came, and the place thereof appeared no more: so the 
next following stood up and reigned, and had a great 
time; (Augusts or Gctavius Caesar.) And it happened 
that when it reigned, the end of it came also, like the 
first, so that it appeared no more. 

Then came there a voice ic7ito it and said; 

Hear thou, that hast borne rule over the earth so 
long; this I say unto thee before thou beginnest to 
appear no more; There shall none after thee attain 
unto thy time, neither unto the half thereof. 

Then rose the third and reigned as the other before, 
and appeared no more. (Tiberius Caesar, "a vile per- 
son.") 

So went it with all the residue one after another, as 
that every one reigned, and then appeared no more. 
(The 12 Ceasars, ending with Domitian A. D. 96.) 

Then I beheld, and lo, in process of time the 
feathers that followed stood up upon the right side, that 
they might rule also; and some of them rule, but in a 
while they appeared no more; 

For some of them were set up but ruled not. (The 
long list ot petty Emperors that ended with Augustulus 
A. D. 476.) And after this I looked, and behoJd, the 
twelve feather (or wings) appeared no more nor the two 
little feathers. 

And there was no more upon the eagle's body but 
three heads that rested, and six little wnngs. (Holy 
Roman Empire and its adjuncts, beginning about A. D. 



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8oo. ) Then I saw also that two little feathers divided 
themselves from the six, and remained under the head 
that was upon the right side; for the four continued in 
their place. 

And I beheld, and lo, the feathers that were under 
the wing thought to set up themselves, and to have 
the rule. 

And I beheld, and lo, there was one set up, but 
shortly it appeared no more. And the second was 
sooner away than the first. 

And I beheld, and lo, the two that remained 
thought also in themselves to reign; And when they 
so thought, behold there awakened one of the heads 
that were at rest namely, it that was in the midst; for 
that was greater than the other two heads. (France 
probably.) 

And then I saw that the two other heads were 
joined with it (Germany and Italy.) And behold, the 
head was turned with them that were with it, and did 
eat up the two feathers under the wing that would have 
reigned. (Saxons and Lombards probably.) 

But this head put the whole earth in fear, and bare 
rule in it over all those that dwelt upon the earth with 
much oppression: and it had the governance of the world 
more than all wings that had been. (It ruled spirit as 
well as body.) And after tliis I beheld, and lo, the head 
that was in the midst suddenly appeared no more like 
as the winu^s. 

But there remained the two lieads which also in like 
sort ruled upon the earth, and over those that dwelt 
therein. (Germany and Italy, most likeh'.) 

And I beheld and lo, the head upon the right side 
devoured it that was on upon the left side. (The Oer- 



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mans held Italy in subjection.) And I heard a voice 
which said unto me, look before thee, and consider the 
thing that thou seest. And I beheld and lo, as it were 
a roaring lion (Probably the British lyion at Waterloo) 
chased out of the wood: and I saw that he sent out a 
mans voice unto the eagle (Napoleon) and said, 

Hear then, I will talk with thee, and the Highest 
shall say unto thee. Art not than it that re7nainest of 
the four beasts whom I made to reigii in viy world with 
great fearfulness, and over the whole compass of the 
earth with much wicked oppression: and so long time 
dwelt he upon the earth with deceit. For the earth thou 
nast not Judged with Truth. 

For thou hast afflicted the meek, thou hast hurt the 
peacable, thou hast loved liars, and destroyed the dwell- 
ings of them that brought forth fruit, and hast cast 
down the walls of sucli as did no harm. 

Therefore is thy wrongful dealing come up unto the 
Highest, and thy pride unto the Might}' . 

The Highest also hath looked upon the proud times, 
and behold they are ended, and his abominations are 
fulfilled. 

And therefore, appear no more, thou eagle, nor thy 
horrible wings, nor thy wicked, feathers, nor thy 
malicious heads, nor th}^ hurtful claws nor thy vain 
body; 

That all the earth ma}' be refreshed, and may re- 
turn, being delivered from they violence, and that she 
may hope for the judgment and mercy of Him that 
made her. (In the soon to come Millennium. ) 

// Esdras XII. 
And it came to pass, while the I.ion spake these 
words unto the Eagle, I saw, and behold, the head that 



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remained, and the four wings appeared no more, and 
the two went unto it, and set themselves up to reign 
and their kingdom was small and full of uproar. 

And I saw, and behold, they appeared no more and 
the whole body of the eagle was burnt (Babylon fallen) 
so that the earth was in great fear; then wakened I out 
of the trance and trouble of my mind, and from great 
fear. 

And I said, Lord that bearest rule, if I have found 
grace before thy sight, and if I am justified with thee 
before many others, and if my pra3^er indeed be come up 
before thy face; 

Comfort me then, and shew me thy servant the 
interpretation and plain difference of this fearful vision, 
that thou mayest perfectly comfort my soul. For thou 
has judged me worthy to show me the last time. 

And He said unto me, this is the interpretation 
of the vision; the eagle whom thou sawest came up 
from the seas, is the kingdom which was seen in tlie 
vision of thy brother Daniel. {Dan. 7.) 

But it was not expounded unto him. therefore now I 
declare it unto thee. 

Behold, the days will come that there shall rise up 
a kingdom upon the earth, and it shall be feared above 
all the kingdoms that were before it. (This vision was 
given Ezra or Esdras about 450 B. C.) 

In the same shall twelve kings rei.i^jn, one after an- 
other; whereof the second sliall begin to reign and shall 
liave 7nore time than any of the tivelve. 

And this do the twelve wings signify which thou 
sawest. 

As for the voice which thou lieardest speak, and 
that tliou sawest not go out from \.\\ki heads, l)Ut from the 



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midst of the body thereof this is the interpretation; that 
a//^r the time of that kingdom (or during the Empire 
period, and after the twelve Caesars) there shall arise 
great striving, and it shall be in peril of falling; never- 
theless it shall 7iot then fall^ but shall be restored again to 
his beginning; (same as the ''deadly wound" given 
the beast in Rev. 13:3.) 

And whereas thou sawest the eight small under- 
feathers sticking to her wrings, this is the interpretation. 

That in him there shall arise eight kings (counter- 
dominions, Goths, etc.) whose times shall be small and 
their years swift. 

And two of them perish, the middle time approach- 
ing; four shall be kept until their end begin to approach; 
but two shall be kept unto the end. 

And whereas thou sawest three heads resting, this 
is the interpretation: 

In the last days shall the most High raise up three 
kingdoms, and reyiew many things therein, (under 
Charlemaigne) and they shall have the dominion of the 
earth. 

And of all those that dwell therein with much op- 
pression above all those that were before them; there- 
fore are they called the heads of the eagle. 

For these are they that shall accomplish his wicked- 
ness, and shall finish his last end. 

(The king of France, Germany and Italy- 
long obeyed tlie behests of popes in every 
wicked oppression.) 

And whereas than sawest that the great head ap- 
peared no more, it signifieth that one of them shall die 
upon his bed, and yet with pain. For the two that 
remain shall be slain with the sw^ord. 



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For the sword of the one shall devour the other: 
but at the last he shall fall through the sword himself. 

And whereas thou sawest two feathers under the 
wings passing over the head that is on the right side; 

It signifieth that these are they whom the Highest 
hath kept unto their end; this is the small kingdom 
and full of trouble as thou sawest. 

And the lion whom thou sawest rising out of the 
wood, and roaring, and speaking to the eagle, and 
rebuking her for her unrighteousness with all the words 
which thou hast heard; 

This is the anointed, which the Highest has kept 
for them, and for their wickedness unto the end; he 
shall reprove them and shall upbraid them with their 
cruelty. 

For he shall set them before him alive in judgment 
and shall rebuke and correct them. (Is this not Eng- 
land's destiny?) 

For the rest of my people shall he deliver with 
mercy, those that have been preserved upon my borders, 
and he shall make them joyful unto the coming of the 
day of judgment (not necessarily the final judgment of 
the great white throne) whereof I have spoken unto 
thee from the beginning. (By the other prophets.) 
This is the dream which thou sawest, and these are the 
interpretations. 

Thou only hast been meet to know this secret of the 
Highest. 

Daniel VIII:S-i2. 

8. Therefore the lie goat waxed very great: and 
when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for 
it cauKi up four nota])le ones toward the four winds 
of heaven. 



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9- And out of one of them came fourth a little 
horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, 
and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. 

10. And it waxed great, even to the host of 
heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the 
stars to the ground, and stamped upon them. 

11. Yea, he magnified himself ^v^w to the Prince 
of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken 
away, and the place of his santuary was cast down. 

12. And an host was given hivt against the daily 
sacrifice by reason of trangression, and it cast down the 
truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered. 

(At the battle of Cynoscephalae B. C. i86, 
whicli Rome won in Macedonia, History tells us 
Rome by her success there became the ^''Arbi- 
tress of the world's destiny" and from that time 
on pnshed her conquests south and east and into 
the ''pleasant land" or Palestine: hence this 
' 'little horn" is said here to have ''come forth" 
out of ONE of these four divisions into which 
Alexander's Empire was broken^ namely, out of 
that of Macedonia?) 

Rev. VI: 7-8. 

7. And when he had opened the fourth seal, I 
heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. 

8. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and 
his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed 
with him. And power was given unto them over the 
fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with 
hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the 
eaith. 



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The opening of the fourth seal^ I take it, 
was to set forth in grand outline what was the 
status of affairs at about the time of the fourth 
thousand years period of man's existence on 
the earth, or, in other words, when Christ came, 
A. M. 4000, which is here symbolically pictured 
as a scene of desolation such as we know Rome's 
power had wrought in the world in making her 
conquest of the nations; so that I take this to 
be God^s photography as it were, of the zvork this 
fourth beast was to do in the world — a work of 
desolation, tribulation, destruction and per- 
secution. This was then the ''abomination 
that maketh desolate" that Christ told his 
disciples should soon ''stand in the Holy 
Place" or in The Temple on Zion's Hill. 

Rev. XVII , 

1. And there came one of the seven angels which 
had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto 
me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment 
of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: 

2. With whom the king of the earth have com- 
mitted fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth 
have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. 

3. So he carried me away in the spirit into the 
wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet 
coloured beast, full of names of hlasphemy, haviiii^ 
seven heads and ten horns. 

4. And the woman was arrayed in j>U!ple and 
scarlet colour, and decked with goUl and pucious 



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stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full 
of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: 

5. And upon her forehead was a name written, 
MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTH- 
ER OF HAREOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF 
THE EARTH. 

6. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood 
of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of 
Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great 
admiration. 

7. And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst 
thou marvel? I will tell thee the myster}- of the woman, 
and of the beast carrieth her, which had the seven heads 
and ten horns. 

8. The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and 
shall ascent out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdi- 
tion: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, 
whose names were not written in the book of life from 
the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast 
that wa^, and is not, and yet is. 

9. And here is the mind which hath wisdom, The 
seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman 
sitteth. 

10. And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and 
one is, and the other is not 3'et come; and when he 
cometh, he must continue a short space. 

11. And the beast that was, and is not, even he is 
the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. 

12. And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten 
kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but 
receive power as kings one hour with the beast. 

13. These have one mind, and shall give their 
power and strength unto the beast. 



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14- These shall make war with the lyamb, and 
the iKanib shall overcome them: for he is Lords of lords, 
and Kings of kings: and they that are with him are 
called, and chosen, and faithful. 

15. And he saith unto me, The waters which thou 
sawest, where the whore sitteth, are people, and multi- 
tudes, and nations, and tongues. 

And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the 
beast 

(Imperial Rome, whose great name, a 
'^terror in the earth," did so much to uphold the 
papacy and establish her power: Hence the 
whore is said to sit upon^ or be ttpheld by, this 
ten-horned beast) 

These shall hate the whore, and shall make her 
desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn 
her with fire. 

(From this it is evident that the papacy 
will fall at last by the anger of the very nations 
surrounding Rome which were formerly under 
her sway; and we can see that one by one they 
have gradually slipped her yoke, until there is 
not one that to-day upholds the temporal 
power of her Head or Pope, and even in those 
countries like France snd Spain which have so 
long been k)yal to him under all circumstances, 
we sec orcat sio-ns of rcstlcssiirss mulcr her 
priestly rule and a too evident disposition to 
get from under this upas shade that has so kuii:: 
blighted their prosperity.") 



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For God hath put it into their hearts to 
fulfill his will^ and to agree, and give their king- 
dom unto the beast, tcntil the words of God shall 
be fulfilled (until her 1260 years is ended 
probably.) 

And the woman which thou sawest is that great 
city which reigneth over the kiyigs of the earth. 

( John^s vision, as we know, was in A. D. 
90, in Patmos, and Rome was certainly the 07ily 
City then ^^ riding over the kings of the earthP Can 
there be any, even the least, doubt then in an}^ 
candid mind that this Babylon spoken of here 
and this ^''great whore^' was Rome and her do- 
minion both imperial and papal, ^ the papal or 
cJmrch power being symbolized by the ^^ Woman 
dressed in scarlet," not onlj^ because her car- 
dinals etc. wear scarlet hats and robes but also 
because, as man}^ converted priests have testi- 
fied in their writings. Father Chiniqu}' in his 
book entitled ^'Fift}^ 3'ears in the Church of 
Rome," and Kirwin in his ^Xetter to Arch- 
bishop Hughes" and many others also, that 
Rome rules the world mainl}^ b}^ the hold her 
priests get on the women of Catholic families by 
getting at the family secrets in the confessional 
box. So that she rules through women mainly 
and is symbolized as a woman power^ and prop- 
erly, since a priest who knows all the marital 
secrets of a woman and all the affairs of her 



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husband, can readily rule the household^ especi- 
ally since they regard him as Holy Father and 
as having the same power and wisdom as God, 
and as standing in Gods place. Thus it is, that 
knowing all these valuable secrets — they can skill- 
fully use them in many ways and when a mem- 
ber of their church comes to die^ having great 
wealthy it is easy to use these ''valuable secrets" 
and to bring to bear a force almost super hu- 
man and irresistable upon the soul trembling 
in the balances of eternity and great enough 
often to coerce such, as acts oi seeming piety ^ to 
leave large swns to the chui^ch^ which onl}^ means 
that these same scheming priests are to be the 
principal benificiaries and eat of it till their 
^'eyes stand out with fatness," as we see them, 
while they thus in ease ''stretch themselves on 
beds of ivory and chant to the sound of the 
viol" saying, "bring wine, and to-da}^ we will 
riot and to-morrow shall be like this day and 
far better^ No wonder they sacrifice to tlicir 
drag and do homage to tJicir nct^ the church, 
and love so much the cJiurcJi^ with which they 
catch such "rich picking" and such "fat iisli/' 
Of course they love the Church! Ah yes, but 
do they LOVK Christ as well, and do tlie\' fol- 
low him in meekness and gentleness, keeping; 
unspotted from the world? God knowcth that 
shall judge in time the faithless sluphcrds that 



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do thus shear the sheep for their own profit but 
feed not their perishing souls with the bread of 
Life, Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, nor 
lead them in his spirit. Of course we do not 
mean that all these Romish priests are cor- 
rupt, and mercenar}'^; many are so, no doubt, 
but on the other hand, many are dehided and 
dli7idedhwt siiW see k{7to^ the truths and many such 
will nozv^ in this time of light, as Father 
Chiniquy did, find the ''' Truth as it is injesus^^ 
alone ^ and will cast off the 3^oke of this pretender, 
this ^'Infallible Pope," to take on that of the 
really Infallible Christ— ''The Truth, The Way 
and The Life," whose yoke is easy and His 
burden light. These will hear and heed the 
voice of God that says to those therein who 
"are of the Trttth,^^ come out of Bab3don, my 
people, and will reject this ^'co7ifnsion w^orse 
confounded" of her doctrine for the sijuplicity 
of Christ, 

The seven headed, ten horned beast on 
which the woman sits S3'mbolizes, the seven hills 
on which her city rests, and also those seven 
species of Roman power which had made the 
very name of Rome such "a terror in the earth" 
that the so-called church could ttse it^ or rest on 
it^ in her ruling of the people. 



Rev. XVIII:i-i2, 

And after these things (after what John had seen in 
chapter 17 of the great whore and here character) I saw 
another Angel come down from heaven having great 
power; and the earth was lightened with his glory, and 
he cried mighty with a strong voice, saying, Babylon 
the great is fallen and is become the hibitation of devils, 
and the hold of every foul spirit, and of every unclean 
and hasteful bird. 

For all nations, have drunk of the wine of the 
wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the eartli 
have committed fornication with her, (or been tangled 
up, or made alliance with HerJ and the merchants of the 
earth have waxed rich through the abundance of her 
delicacies. 

And I heard another voice from heaven saying, 
come out of her, my people, that ye partake not of her 
sins, and that ye receive not of h^er plagtces. 

(Take not the ^'mark of tlie beast" on 3^011 
it says in another place, that is steer clear of 
all alliance with Rome or her chiircJi^ it is dan- 
gerous business.) 

For her siyis have reached unto heaven and Ood 
hath remembered her iyiiquities. Reward her even as 
she rewarded you, and double unto her double accord- 
ing to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill 
to her double, 

(This looks like (jod is going to raise up 
persecution against the persecutors in time and 
intolerance for the intolerant.) 

How mucli she hath glorified herself, and lived dclic- 
iously, so nuich torment and sorrow give her; for she 



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saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and, am no window, 
and shall see no sorrow. 

(Ancient Babylon glorified herself the same 
way as does this '^Eternal City'' so-called, but 
God treated her to a like cup and is it likely 
the SAME PRIDE in Rome rhall fail to bring de- 
struction all the same ?) 

Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, 
and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly 
burned with fire; for strong is the Lord that Judgeth her. 
And the kings of the earth who have committed fornica- 
tion (Had friendly Alliance, like the Holy leagues, etc.) 
and lived diliciously with her, shall bewail her and 
lament for her when they see the smoke of her burning. 

Standing afar off for fear of her torment (It wont be 
so popular a thing then to be in league with Rome as it 
has been long ago.) saying, Alas, alas, that great city 
Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judg- 
ment come. 

The merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn 
over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any 
more. 

(This will be especially hard, no doubt, on 
those who sell her wax candles by the million, 
and that peddle in crucifixes and relicts like the 
''Bones of St. Peter" and the '^Holy Coats", and 
''Splinters from the true Cross" of which Kirwin 
said he saw enough in her various churches to 
make a shipload probably.) 

The merchandise of gold and silver and precious 
stones 



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(Just think of the followers of the ^^neek 
and lowly Nezarene" who '^had not where to lay 
his head" and had not two coats while he 
preached the Word of Life, thus so far corrupted, 
and drifted from his simplicity, as to require in 
his worship all these fine luxurious trappings, 
red hats and all.) 

And of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, 
and scarlet (This for the cardinals, you know) and all 
thyine wood 

(This for incense, while God demands only 
the ^4ncense of a pure heart", the pra3^er and 
praise and thanksgiving, arising naturally from 
the converted soul?) 

And all manner of vessels of ivory, and all manner 
of vessels of most precious wood 

(O, if the common people, who drndge and 
sweat, to pay for these, could only know the inside 
of these matters, and see that Vatican with its 
6000 rooms, and St. Peters at Rome and all those 
great cathedrals, ivorks of pride and ostcutatio)i 
and folly, ) 

And of brass and iron, and marble (for images 
and statuary) and cinnamon and odars (for incense) and 
ointments, and frankincence and wine 

(Of course, '.\\\^ Bc)icdict'nu\ too, which we 
know was invented, and so uiauy other like 
^'strong drinks" by the lazy monks in the middle 
ages who, we arc told, also discovc^xd and iutro- 



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duced the process of distillation which has 
wrought such evil and woe in the world) 

And oil (for extreme unction, which Kirwin says, 
sells thus at $ii.oo per drop to the dying) and fine 
flour, 

(This is for the baking of the ^^little bread 
God" as some call the Host, which baked be- 
tween two hot irons with some letters on them, 
and blessed by the priest they think becomes 
the real body of Christ, instead of the symbol of 
the same which was ^^broken for you" as we 
break the bread ^'in remembrance of me" as He 
said^ to remind us of the Lord and what he en- 
dured for us on the cross, that we through his 
sacrifice might have a chance of ^'eternal life".) 

And beasts and sheep, and horses, and chariots 
(the great state carriages for the popes and cardinals) 
and slaves, and (saddest of all!) The souls of vten, 

(Think of it, reader, a traffic in the souls of 
m.en! How can money be inade by selling to Hell 
the souls of men? By deception, hy false doctrine y 
believed on and lived by. The believing a lie is 
what damns, the Word tells us. Take an in- 
stance: Here is a man with an immortal soul, 
destined after death to either Hell or Heaven. 
God says to such an one: Repent and now is the 
accepted time, in life] quit sinning now and ac- 
cept Jesus for Lord or Master and I will forgive 
the past for Christ's sake^ and will give you my 



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Spirit to keep yoti from sinning in the future. 
The man does this^ and so, if standing steadfast 
to the end, inherits eternal life, dies, and is 
saved to Heaven. He believed the Truth as 
Jesus taught it who said: If a man ''die in his 
sins^' where / am he cannot come — and turned 
from sin and is saved eternally. 

Now take such an one, teach him as Rome 
does; no special need to repent or tiirn fro7n sin 
now, no need to quit sin, just ''join our church^\ 
and when you sin confess to us, and we forgive 
you. No need to cease sinning. There is our 
purgatory; if you '^die hi sin you go there. Just 
leave so much money for us^ for masses etc., and 
we will pray you out, we will release you and 
send you up to where Jesus is^ up to Heaven. 
Jesus says no. Suppose now, the man swallows 
this covetous, lying bait, believes this lie and acts 
on it^ makes confession, leaves the money for 
masses, dies ''in his sins" and finds when he 
lands in Hell, that he was 7nistaken^ that it was 
NOT God's Truth Rome taught, but the reverse, 
and to all eternity his soul is ''sold" to the devil. 
Who got the price? The church to which he left 
the money to pay for the masses to take him 
out of purgatory. This money goes into hands of 
Rome, into the coffers of this new Babylon. See 
you not then, how this Babylon thus traffics in 
damning deception and ^ 'makes merchandise' of 



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the souls of men ^ o\\ as the scripture says in an- 
other place, ''through covetousness'' in order to 
have the grand organs and the grand spires, 
marble statues, and the scarlet for her pompous 
cardinals. 

Friend that readeth this, take heed that 
you fall not into this ''open pit of Hell" through 
false Romish doctrine. "Say not a confederacy,'^ 
to make not for j'ourself alliance with, join not to 
all to whom this people, however numerous-"say 
a confederac)'" or join themselves, but ''sanctify 
the Lord God in yoMx heart,'' seek Christ alone 
as master' and no Rabbi or Pope; get the new 
birth, the "clean heart," be converted, and get 
the spirit of God in your heart which being the 
"spirit of Tritih, shall lead you into all truth, '^ 
and save you from being deceived by such 
dehtsions as that of Rome and her wondrous 
church, g7^eat, but great in evil?) 

13. And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, 
and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and 
wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, 
and slaves, and souls of men. 

14. And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are 
departed from thee, and all things which were dainty 
and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find 
them no more at all. 

15. The merchants of these things, which were 
made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her 
torment, weeping and wailing, 



— 63 — 

i6. And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that 
was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and 
decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! 

17. For in one hour so great riches is come to 
naught. And ever}^ ship-master, and all the company 
in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood 
afar off, 

18. And cried when they saw the smoke of her 
burning, saying. What city is like unto this great city! 

19. And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, 
weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, 
wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea 
by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made 
desolate. 

20. Rejoice over her, tliou heaven, and ye holy 
apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you 
on her. 

21. And a mighty angel took up a stone like a 
great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus 
with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown 
down, and shall be found no more at all. 

22. And the voice of harps, and musicians, and oi 
pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in 
thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he he, shall 
be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone 
shall be heard no more at all in thee : 

23. And the light of a candle shall shine no more 
at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of 
the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy 
merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy 
sorceries were all nations deceived. 

24. And in her was found the blood of prophets, 
and of saintvS, and of all tliat were slain upon the earth. 



— 64 — 

Rev. Charter XIX. 

1 . And after these things I heard a great voice of 
much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia, Salvation, and 
glor\', and honour, and power unto the Lord our God. 

2. For true and righ tons are his judgments: for he 
hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth 
with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his 
sen-ants at her hand, 

(This last is 3'et to come and not far away, 
by '^the signs of the times'', now unfolding and 
rolling up from the abyss of the Fulture.) 



Habakkuk II. 

1. I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon 
the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto 
me, and what I shall answer when I am reproached. 

2. And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the 
A-ision, and make // plain upon tables, that he may run 
that readeth it. 

3. For the ^dsion is yet for an appointed time, but 
at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, 
w^ait for it; because it will surel}" come, it will not XsLvry. 

4. Behold, his soul which is Ufted up is not upright 
in him: but the just shall live by his faith. 

5. Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, and is 
a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlarge th his 
desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, 
but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto 
him all people: 

6. Shall not all these take up a parable against him, 
and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to 
him that increaseth that ichich is not his I how long? and 
to him that ladeth himself with thick clav! 



— 65 — 

7- Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite 
thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be 
for booties unto them? 

8. Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the 
remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of man's 
blood, and /or the violence of the land, of the city, and of 
all that dwell therein. 

9. Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to 
his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he ma}' 
be delivered from the power of evil ! 

10. Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by 
cutting off many people, and hast vSinned against thy soul. 

11. For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the 
beam out of the timber shall answer it. 

12. Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, 
and stablisheth a city by iniquity. 

13. Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts that the 
people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall 
weary themselves for very vanity? 

14. For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge 
of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. 

15. Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, 
that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest Jfim drunken 
also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness! 

16. Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink 
thou also, and let thy foreskin l)e uncovered: the cup of 
the Lord's riglit hand shall be turned unto thee, and 
shameful spewing shall he on thy glor>'. 

17. For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, 
and the spoil of beasts, 7r//?r// made them afraid, l>ecause 
of men's l)l()od, and for the violence of the land, of the 
city, and of all that dwell tlicrein. 

18. What ])r()fiteth the graven iinaL;e that the 



— 66 — 

maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a 
teacher of lies, that the maker of his work tnisteth, therein, 
to make dumb idols? 

Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the 
dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over 
with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the 
midst of it. 

20. But the Lord is in his hoh' temple: let all the 
earth keep silence before him. 



Bee. XII. 

1. And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a 
woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her 
feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: 

2. And she being with child cried, travehng in 
birth, and pained to be delivered. 

3. And there appeared another wonder in heaven: 
and behold a great red dragon, ha\'ing seven heads and 
ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. 

4. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of 
heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon 
stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, 
for to devour her child as soon as it was bom. 

5. And she brought forth a man child, who was to 
rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was 
caught up unto God, and to his throne. 

6. And the woman fled into the wilderness, where 
she had a place prepared of God, that the}' should feed 
her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. 

(The woman here, I think, s^'nibolizes ''The 
Spirit of Truth'' which brought forth Jesus, the 
Truth, and the great Red Dragon, the Roman 



— 67 — 



power, whicli was destined to ''cast the tritth to 
the ground'\ or hinder it by her sword and her 
false teaching till her ^^time is fulfilled'', when 
her last end shall come.) 



Here we append some prophecies concern- 
ing Rome's dealing with the Jews in their over- 
throw. 

Ezeh, XXL 

8. Again the word of the Lord came unto me, 
saying, 

9. Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the 
Lord; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also 
furbished: 

10. It is sharpened to make a sure slaughter; it is 
furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? 
it contemneth the rod of my Son, as every tree. 

11. And he hath given it to be furbished, that it 
may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is> fur- 
bished, to give it into the hand of the slayer. 

12. Cry and howl, .son of man: for it sliall be upon 
my people, it sJiall he upon all the princes of Lsrael: terrors 
by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite 
therefore upon thy thigh. 

13. Because it is a trial, and what if (Jic .^iconl 
contemn even the Rod? it shall be no more, said the 
Lord God. 

14. Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and 
smite tJiine hands together, and let the sword ]>e doubled 
the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of 
the great men that arc slain, which entereth into their 
privy chaml)ers. 



— 68 — 

15- I have set the point of the sword against all 
their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be 
multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the 
slaughter. 

1 6. Go thee one way or the other, either on the 
right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set. 

17. I will also smite mine hands together, and I 
will cause my fury to rest: I the Lord have said it. 

(The ^^Rod'' v/hich it is said this sword of 
Rome shall ''contemn" — ''The rod of my son" — 
is only an expression for Jesus, whom, it is here 
foretold, the Roman soldier's spear should pierce 
on the cross, as we know it did. Christ is called 
in another place also the ''Branch^^ which is the 
same as the term Rod here employed.) 



Jeremiah VIII:ij-22. 

13. I w^ill surely consume them said the Lord: 
there shall he no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig 
tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have 
given them shall pass aw^ay from them. 

14. Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and 
let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent 
there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and 
given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned 
against the Lord. 

15. We looked for peace, but no good came; and 
for a time of health, and behold trouble. 

16. The snorting of his horse w^as heard from Dan: 
the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of 
his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured 
the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that 
dwell therein. 



— 69 — 

1 7- For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, 
among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall 
bite you, saith the lyORD. 

1 8. When I would comfort myself against sorrow, 
my heart is faint in me. 

19. Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of 
my people because of them that dwell in a far countr}-; 
Is not the lyORD in Zion? is not her King in her? Why 
have they provoked me to anger with their graven 
images, and with strange vanities? 

20. The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and 
we are not saved. 

2 1 . For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I 
hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. 

22. Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician 
there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my 
people recovered? 



Joel 11. 



1. Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an 
alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the 
land tremble: for the day of the lyORi) cometh, for U ix 
nigh at hand: 

2. A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of 
clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon 
the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath 
not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, 
erca to the years of many generations. 

3. A fire devoureth 1)efore them; and behintl them a 
llame burnetii: the land /.s r^s• the garden of l<Men before 
them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea. and 
nothing shall esc^ipe them. 



— 70 — 

4- The appearance of them is as the appearance of 
horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. 

5. Ivike the noise of chariots on the tops of moun- 
tain shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that 
devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle 
array. 

6. Before their face the people shall be much 
pained: all faces shall gather blackness. 

7. They shall run like mighty men; they shall 
climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march 
ever}^ one on his ways, and the}^ shall not break their 
ranks: 

8. Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk 
every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, 
the}' shall not be wounded. 

9. They shall run to and fro in the city; the}^ shall 
run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; 
the}^ shall enter in at the windows like a thief. 

10. The earth shall quake before them; the heaven 
shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and 
the stars shall withdraw their shining. 

1 1 And the Lord shall utter his voice before his 
army: for his camp is ver}^ great: for he is strong that 
executeth his work: for the day of the Lord is great and 
verv terrible; and who can abide it? 



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) 

1 



Chapter 9. 

Now we come to those references that more 
especially appertain to Rome's Temporal poiuer, 
sometimes called her Imperial power, bnt which 
in reality includes her dominion under those 

SIX KINDS OR SPECIES OF GOVERNMENT which 

obtained in her before that of the Popes, which 
six I take it includes Kings, Consuls, Trium- 
virs, Decemvirs, Dictators, and lastly Emperors. 
For convenience Ave will often designate all 
these taken together by the term Imperial Rome 
as distinguished from Papal Rome or her power 
under the popes, which is a so-called spiritual 
power, while these six preceding it were wholly 
temporal or civil. 

Dan. 11:31. 33. 40' 

Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. 
This great image whose brightness was excellent, stood 
before thee: and the form thereof was terri])le. 

This image's legs were of iron. 
(The two legs divided or spread apart are 
symbols of the eastern and western divisions of 
the Roman Empire into which it finally split.) 

And the fourth kingdom (Rome) shall be strong as 
iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subducth 
all things: and as iron breaketh all these, .shall it break 
in pieces and l)ruise. 



72 — 

Dan. VII: /. 2j. 24. 

And after this I saw in the night visions, and behold 
a fourth beast (Rome) dreadful and terrible and strong 
exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and 
brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of 
it: and it was different from all the beasts that were before 
it; and it had ten horns. 

(These horns were rVsia, Africa, Eg3'pt, 
S3'ria, Illyrian frontier, France, Spain, Germany, 
Britain and Italy, that constituted her Imperial 
domain.) 

Thus he said, the fourth beast shall be the fourth 
kingdom (ha^-ing universal dominion) on earth, which 
shall he di verse from all kingdoms (beginning as a temporal 
and ending as so called spiritual power) and shall devour 
the whole earth, and shall tread it down and break it in 
pieces. 

And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings 
that shall arise: (that is kingdoms that shall be absorbed 
by this power) and another shall arise after them; and he 
shall be diverse from the first, and he shsill subdue three 
kings. 

(This last is the papal power which received 
from Charlemagne A. D. Soo the real dominion 
over his three kingdoms of France, Germanv 
and Italy, so fully establishing the Holy Roman 
Empire which probably ended with Xapoleon at 
Waterloo, he having alread}' crowned his little 
son ''King of Rome'' and was no doubt contem- 
plating the founding of another univ€7^sal do- 
minion with Rome as its centre, but God said 



No, and poured down Russian snows before this 
event and English bullets at Waterloo, and said: 
Thus far shalt thou go and no further; the fifth 
dominion is for Jesus my Son, and the ^^proud 
times" are ended.) 

Dan. VIII :8, ii. 23. 24. 
Therefore the he goat (Alexander the Great) waxed 
great, and when he was strong the great horn was 
broken; and /or ii came up Jour notable ones toward the 
four winds of heaven. 

(His four generals divided his dominions, 
and out of her conquests in one of tJiese divisions, 
that is in Macedonia, at the battles of Cyno- 
cephalae and Pydna, about 186 B. C, Rome fjot 
her start or became thereby arbitress of the 
world's destiny — hence we learn this from what 

here follows.) 

And out of one of them (Macedonia) came forth a 
Httle horn which waxed exceeding^ great toward the south 
and toward the east and toward the pleasant land (Pales- 
tine) and it waxed great even to the host of heaven and it 
cast down some of the host and of the titars (God's 
notable ones) to the ground, and stamped upon them. yea» 
he magnified himself even to the Prince of the \lo<[ 
(crucified Jesus "the Messiah" "and the Amjcl of Jfis 
(God's) Presence'') and by him tlie dtiUij sarrifirc iras tftkoi 
(tv)ay and (he plac' of Ili^ sa nc( ua ri/ r((s( doiin. 

(If there was (///// (hnihf as to wliether the 
Ronuin power is Jtcre nuant, these lira rirrit)i}- 
stances would Jfonlsh It firrrver, for )i()tli/ti(j />* "><>''' 



— 74 — 

certain in h istory^ than that theRomans under Titus 
A. D. 70 took Jerusalem and burned the Temple 
and also that a Roman soldier pierced the side 
of Him who is ''The desire of all Nations", Je- 
sus, and since then the ''daily sacrifice" that 
had smoked almost Avithout any intermission 
since Solomon's time, 1000 B. C, upon the Jew- 
ish altars has never been offered.) 



Rev. XIII:i~io. 

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a 
beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten 
horns and upon his horns ten crowns and upon his heads 
the names of blasphem3\ 

(The ten crowned horns are the ten king- 
doms we mentioned before and the seven heads 
may sjmibolize the seven hills or "mountains" 
on which the city is located or else the seven 
species of dominion that were to complete the 
fabric of her greatness, that is Kings, Consuls, 
Triumvirs, Decemvirs, Dictators, Emperors and 
Popes, or perhaps the}'^ i^ay stand /br boih^ for 
as the seven hills support the city proper, so on 
these seven kinds of dominion was founded or 
built up the fabric of her church's greatness and 
glory in the earth. — The names given to the 
seven hills and also to the seven species of power 
are all names oi pride and so properly of blas- 
phemy — as Capitoline, Hill of Jove, from Caput, 



/o 



the head, signif3dng the pre-eminence of Jove 
over Jehovah. Viminal, from vim, violence and 
strength, and so on of all the seven. Also we find 
the other seven are names signifying pride and 
violence, things hateful to God, as Rex, King, 
from regere, to rule; Imperator, Emperor, from 
imperare, to command, etc.; and the name of 
Rome itself, we are told, signifies strength and 
violence^ whence we might expect it to be a 
city of oppression and pride, a seat of 'S^io- 
lence,'' a stronghold of evil.) 

The beast which I saw was like a leopard 
(A leopard slips tip on his prey, creeping, 
so Rome destroyed many ''by peace\ as the scrip- 
tures say in another place, and overcame by lies 
o{ flattery w\ier^ force would not avail?) 

And his feet were the/c^i of a hear 

(So Rome, as does a bear^ embraced many to 
their destruction^ like this animal, crusJiiiio' tlic 
bones, while it seemed to give the huo; of friend- 
ship and the same spirit is in Papal Rome like- 
wise, and all seven ot these species of government 
and power have the likk spirit, the Babylonian 
spirit, in all times.) 

And his moutli was the mouth of a hon. 

(How the nations trcml)lcd when slic roar- 
ed, and how her threatening crushed where her 
deception fell short, history can tell on many 
pages. '^^\\(i pale horse of the fiMirtli seal sci-ms 



— 7G — 

to indicate "Co.^ fau- and <:/r^^^/ that she wrought 
among the nations.) 

And I saw oxE of her heads wounded as it were to 
death: and his deadly iround was healed: and all the 
world Kondred after the beast, 

This head was that of the Ernpiir^ or Rome 
under Emperors, which came to end under Ro- 
mulus Augustus, called Aitgtcstiihis , the last em- 
peror of the temporal power, residing at Rome, 
who was dethroned A. D. 476, after the Huns, 
Goths and Vandals had so desolated Rome's 
dominions and humbled her power and stripped 
bare her cit}', that all the world wondered if she 
would ever again 7'ise to greatness or her ^Svound be 
healed'', but this she was destined, under God's 
providence, to do under the popes, when, upheld 
by Charlemagne's Holy Empire of three king- 
doms, she again rose to reign over the KIXGS of 
the earth, over soul and bod}^ and to-day is great 
in her influence for evil, still committing for- 
nication with the kings of the earth, or in other 
words, mixing herself with, tangling herself up 
with these, all she can, and scheming to direct the 
politics of cdl ncitions, and thus, in God's sight, so 
defiles this so-called Bride of Christ, her so- 
called Church, that He repudiates her claim of 
zuife-hood^ and stops her mouth with the stigma 
of '^Harlot" and ''Sccirlet Womany 



— 77 — 

/ And they worshipped the Dragon [Devil], which 

gave power to the beast: and the^^ worshipped the beast, 
saying who is like unto the beast? Who is able to make 
war with him? 

(This Roman power, then, \vas a power of 
or for evil in the earth, and derived her power 
from the Dragon, Devil, or Spirit of Evil, who 
is said to '^give him his seat and authority'', — In 
other words, it was by invasion^ by violence, by 
policy, by disguise, by deceit^ by everything devil- 
ish^ by every means that God despises and Christ 
condemns, and that the devil loves, that this 
great city, the priiicipal ''Antichrist'' or '"'Mystery 
o^ Iniquity^ ^ was to attain her success and build 
her dominion. The temptations that the devil 
offered Christ in the wilderness and which he 
refused^ these he offered Rome and her leaders and 
they a// accepted — popes and all. The}', for 
te7np07'ary or temporal success threw godliness 
and "principle and truth to the winds and hence 
their kingdom, in due time, must "come to 
naught'' as ''built on stubble''; but Christ's do- 
minion, though taking lov^o^ to establish and 
requiring more faith and icai/iHo- and paiiouc 
for the saints, shall ''abide for cvt r\' so miicli 
better is it to walk by faith in true godliness 
and await a good and eternal result from God, 
tlian to 'Svalk by sight^^ and bnild for llnir alone: 
so much better is it to say, with Jesus, ''gel 



thee behind me satan" than to fall down and 

• 

worship him, or obey Him though he give ns 
for the TIME being ''all the kingdoms of the 
world'' for a reward — hence the prophesy in the 
loth verse fortells the result of her^t'i/ doing^ of 
her Dragon's partnership: ''He that leadeth into 
captivity shall, in time, go into captivity; he 
that Idlleth by the sword shall be Jcilled with the 
sivordy Note that this is the same warnivg 
Christ gave to Peter when he used the sivord to 
defend Him against the High Priest's servants, 
well knoiving, and thereby^ no doubts prophesying 
that Rome should build her false church upon 
Peter alone and not Christ as foundation stone 
and that with like spirit as Peter then exhibited 
so she should use the sword to slay all those who 
opposed her doctrine, calling all this murder by 
name of '^defending thefaith^\ — This Christ con- 
demned in Peter and condemns in Peter^s churchy or 
that of Rome.) 



// Esdras XI '.1-4.5, ^^^ "pari. 

Then saw I a dream, and behold there came up from 
the sea an eagle, which had twelve feathered wings and 
three heads. 

And I saw and behold she spread her wings over all 
the earth, and all the winds of the air belew on her, and 
were gathered together. 

(These twelve wings are the twelve Caesars 



— 79 — 

beginning with Julins Caesar and ending with 
Domitian, and under whom Rome rose to her 
highest pinnacle of power, hence they are called 
*^the wings" by which she arose to her height of 
glory and the iA7^ee heads are the three king- 
doms of Germany, France and Italy that con- 
stituted the Holy Roman Empire which was 
for so long the hasis of the papal power, and 
executed its wicked behests?} 

And I beheld, and lo the eagle rose upon her talons 
and spake to her wings saying, watch not all at once: 
sleep every one in his own place and watch by course: 
But let the heads be preserved for the last. 

And I looked and behold on the right side there arose 
one wing, and reigned over all the earth (Julius Caesar. ) 

And so it was that when it reigned the end of it 
came, and the place thereof appeared no more: so the 
next following stood up and reigned and had a great time. 
(Augustus Caesar, w^ho reigned 45 years from B. C. 14 to 
A. D. 31, more than twice as long as any of the ten fol- 
lowing him) And it happened that wlien it reigned, the 
end of it came also, like the first so that it appeared no 
more. 

Then came a voice unto it (Aui;ustus) and said: 
Hear thou, that hast borne rule over the earth so loiii;. 
This I say unto thee hejore thou beginnest to ap|>ear no 
more. There shall none after thee attain to thy time, 
neither unto the half thereof ( /. e, none of thy successors 
shall reign half so long as thou.) 

Then arose the third (Teberius Caesar) and reigned 
as the otlier ])efore, and appeared no more. 



— 80 — 

So went it with all the rest one after another, as that 
ever}" one reigned and then appeared no more. 

After this I looked and behold the twelve feathers 
(or wings) appeared no more, nor the two little feathers. 
And there was no more upon the eagle body but the 
three heads that waited and six little wings. 

And I beheld and lo, a roaring Lion as it were chased 
out of the woods, and I saw that he sent out a man's 
voice unto the eagle and said. Hear thon, I will talk 
vvith thee, and the Highest shall sa}" unto thee. Art thou 
not it that remainest of the four beasts (mentioned in 
Daniel 7th) whom I made to reign in my world, that the 
end of their times might come through them? 

And the fourth came and overcame all the beasts 
that were past, and had power over the world with great 
fearfulness and over the whole compass of the earth with 
much 'wicked oppression: and so long time dwelt upon the 
earth ivith deceit. And therefore appear no more thou 
eagle nor thy horrible wings nor thy wicked feathers nor 
thy malicious heads, nor thy hurtful claws, nor all thy 
vain bod3^ 

(Does any one wish to hiovj whether these 
three heads that constituted the so called ^^Holy 
Roman Empire" which so long was the mere 
wicked instrument of the popes, as it says in 
another place, to '^execute their ivickedness^^^ was 
a godly amiable power or one to 'Svear out the 
saints of God?" This tells us plainly\ it was evil 
and they are here called malicious^ and 2. part of 
this Jmrtful eagle and with the same spirit.) 



— 81 — 

// Esdros XI I: I- J 6 in Part. 

(This is the interpretation of the foregoing 
chapter, and we will select some verses that refer 
more particularly to Imperial Rome,) 

And he said unto me this is the interpretation of the 
vision. 

The eagle whom thou sawest came up from the sea 
is the kingdom which was seen in the vision of th}^ 
brother Daniel (Dan. 7th) but it was not expounded unto 
him (fully) therefore now I declare it unto thee. 

(These two chapters, the nth and i2tli, 
deserve to be most carefully read by anj" one 
curious to look into this subject full}^, since 
they give the most exact outline pictttre of Rome, 
history from beginning to end that is to be found 
in scripture, as often as this great one is men- 
tioned therein, in other places.) 

Behold the days will come that there shall rise up a 
kingdom upon earth and it shall be feared above all the 
kingdoms that were before it. (The popes conjure with the 
terror of this great name even yet.) In the same shall 
twelve kings reign one after another (12 Caesars.) 

Wlierof the second (Augustus) shall ])egin to reiizii 
and shall have more time (reign longer) than any of 
the twelve. 

(History confirms this, though with a 
apparant exceptio)}^ hut iu)t a real (nn\ in the 
case of Tiberius, since Augustus really ruled 
Rome some four 3'cars before lie was erowuecl 
emperor.) 



And this do the twelve wings sings signify which 
thou sawest. 

Alter the time of that kingdom 

(After the Caesars, and under the late 
emperors in the time of Alaric the Visigoth and 
Attila the Hun, that sacked Rome and plun- 
dered it about A. D. 400.) 

There shall arise great strivings and it (Rome) 
shall stand in peril of falling (same as in Revelation, 
the beast had a deadly wou7id) ; nevertheless it shall not 
then fall; but shall be restored again unto its beginning. 

(The deadl}^ wound was healed by the 
popes and Charlemagne, and Pepin, and Otto 
of German}^, and the Hoh^ Roman Empire, 
which last propably perished with Napoleon's 
power at Waterloo A. D. 1815, at least there 
the backbone of this power was broken. The 
balance of this chapter to verse thirty-six goes 
on to describe the papal power and its final over- 
thrown which so far as the temporal power was 
concerned ended conipletly when King Victor 
Immanuel triumphed in Itaty, but which still 
survives as a socalled spiritual power in the 
present pope. Cardinal Peeei that was — whose 
name Pecci, meaning "^of si7i\ indicates that he 
is probably that ''Man of sin'' mentioned in the 
New Testament, where it sa3'S his power shall 
be destroyed by ''The brightness of Christ's 
coming and the spirit of his niouth^^ or b}' His 



— 83 — 

Truth. From the time of Waterloo this power 
was to be '^destroyed unto the end" or gradu- 
ally decline^ till the final end will come, when 
Babylon is burned with fire. Thus said the 
Lord.) 

Hah. 11:2-12, 

And the Lord answered me and said, write the 
vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run 
that readeth it. 

For the vision is yet for an appointed time (God has 
fixed the set time for all great events) but at the end it 
will speak, and not lie; though it tarry wait of it; because 
it will surely come, it will not tarry. 

Behold his soul which is lifted up (with pride like 
the Romans, desiring to rule everything,) is not upriqht 
in him: but the just shall live by liis faith. 

(Taking the word of God alone for (jiude, 
as Jesus did, and not leaning on proud human 
reason alone, as the proud Roman philosophers 
so-called^ taught their men to do.) 

Yea also, because he transgresses by wine, lie is a 
provAl man neither Icepcth at home (must ever be invad- 
IV (J his neighbor's territory,) who enlargeth his det^ire as 
hell (such a picture of ambition!) and cannot be satisfied, 
but gathereth unto him (in subjection) all nations, aiui 
heapeth unto liim all people. 

Shall not all these (in due time) take up a p:i!al>le 
against him, and a taunting proverb against liim and 
say, woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! 
how long! and to him that ladetli himself with thick 
clay! 



— 84 — 

Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, 
and awake that shall vex tliee^ and thou shalt be for 
booties unto them? 

(Goths and Huns and Vandals did this in 
due time, and England later on, at Waterloo, 
and Victor Immanuel, or God-with-us the Con- 
queror, in 1870.) 

Because thou hast spoiled many nations, (The 
treasures of all nations are still in Rome. A constant 
stream still pours into papal coffers.) All the remnant 
of the people shall spoil Thee; because of mens blood, 
(The Holy Inquision, etc.) and for the violence of the 
land, of the city and of all that dwell therein, (popes 
and all; but this last is yet to come.) 

Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to 
his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may 
be delivered from the power of evil! Thou has consulted 
shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and 
hast sinned against thy soul. 

For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the 
beam out of the timber shall answer it. 

Woe to him that buildeth a toivn ivith blood, and 
establisheth a city by iniquity! 

(Yea, woe to thee Babylon, woe to thee, 
her daughter of Rome!) 



Lamentations I V:i8-2o. 

They (The Roman soldiers) hunt our steps that we 
cannot go into our streets (of Jerusalem): our end is 
near, our days are fiulfiUed: for our end is come. 

Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the 
heaven; they persued us upon the mountains, they laid 
wait for us in the wilderness. 



— 85 — 

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord 
(The Lord Jesus Christ.) was taken in their pits, of 
whom we said, under his shadow we shall live, among 
the heathen. 

(The Jews expected Christ to drive out the 
Romans and lead them in battle^ which he zuill 
do in time, but in a woy different from what 
they expected. These Romas are mentioned in 
many other places in scripture in connection 
with the ^^scattering of the Jews,'' which God 
had appointed them to do as His Trihiilation, 
or threshing machine^ or fan mill to separate 
chaff from wheat, but these references will 
suf&ce for my purpose here.) 



-r^^- 



Chapter io. 

Here follows mucli that we find in the Word 
of God, but not all that is therein, that appertains 
more especially to the Papal power or Rome's 
History under the popjes^ or as a so-called spiri- 
tual power — which dominion we think, in God's 
estimation, began probably in the year A. D. 
666, or at the time that Pope Vitaliaii^ ^'' surnamed 
the Beast b}' his contemporaries," issued his 
deci^ee compelling all churches under Rome's 
dominion to use Rovies language in their ser- 
vices, in other words the Latin in the mass and 
other services, thus making an ''image," as it 
were, to the ten horned beast, and thus com- 
pelling all to do reverence to Imperial Rome 
through the tise of her language. Some think 
the decree of the Emperor Justinian, about A. 
D. 540, seated the papac}^, and others think 
about A. D. 700 the true date, and others Judge 
that the crowning of Charlemagne by the pope 
in A. D. 800 was the true basis and beginning 
of Rome's papal power; but I am inclined to 
think this decree of Vitallian most probabty was 
its inital point, and this is significant too as ac- 
cording WITH the NUMBER of his name 666, and 



87 — 

also in the fact that historians tell us this 
Vitallian was so wicked that he was surnamed 
^^the Beast" by his contemporaries. If this be so, 
many that are often called popes by Catholic 
writers were not so in contemplation of Gods 
word, but were merely great bishops of Rome 
whom this deceptive church has chosen to des- 
ignate popes in order the better to use their 
great names and impose on mankind, calling 
these her own — whereas these great bishops did 
not ASSERT any claim of dominion over the 
churchs outside of their bishoprick^ as those later 
real popes constantly did, claming the whole 
world. The term Pope is the same as papa 
and means father^ and hence he is called the 
Holy Father and all those who accept him as 
such^ do so in direct violation of Christ's command 
to his disciples to ^Vall no man Rabbi" or 
spiritual Father, in other words, to accept no 
one but Christ as having dominion over our 
faith, as this '^infallible" one seeks to do. 
Those who so accept him then set at naught the 
words of Jesus.) 



Papal Power. 



Rev. XIIL 

And I beheld another beast (Papal power) coming 

up out of the earth: and he had two horns like a Lamb. 

(That is Romanism on the surface, on the 

apex of it, on the church spires^ shall look like the 

Lambs religion; it shall be called in the earth, 

by those who do not look deeper into things, but 

look at the outside — A Christian Churchy or, by 

some, the only Christain Church, and by some 

the Mother Churchy who shall think it started with 

Christ; no it did uot^ it sta7^ted about six hundred 

years after Christy when the Roman bishops — 

who at first claimed no authority over the 

churches outside their bishopricks^ by the sword, 

out of ambition, and by chicane, established 

their claim to be the head and authority over 

all the Christiajz churches in the worlds j^i-St as 

Rome was the head city of all the world. The 

civil power to thus magnify Rome as much as 

possible at the expense of the rest of the earth, 

favored^ and upheld^ and finally established by 

decrees, this bogus claim of her bishop over 

all the churches in the world that were called 

Christian. It was not to be real Christianity 

but it was to be somewhat like it^ and wear its 



— 89 — 

name^ and so this beast that symbolizes it was 
^^LiKE a Lamb" as to his two little horns, at his 
highest point; but do not expect of it the spirit 
or disposition of Christ on the inside — whence 
its voice comes, where the fullness of the heart 
is, for when it speaks we find it roars and tJmn- 
ders with a^Uhority — not like the meek and 
gentle voice of Christ, persuading men, but 
speaks with the ^'Thunder of the Vatican" and 
at all times, ^'like a D^^agon^^ or tlie Dragon, 
which is but another name for the Devil. All 
\\)\s fiercemess of authority, any one should see, 
consists not well with the spirit of Him whom 
they profess to follow, the Lamb of God, the 
^^Meek and lowly Nazarene^^ whose teaching 
was, Love and persuade men from evil, do not 
resist evil by violence — do no use the sword — 
for they that ^'take it shall perish by if; and so 
this description, so marvelously apt to fit the 
history of this papal power at Rome, goes on to 
say, ''and he spake as a dragon.") 

And he exercises all the power of the first bei\st 
before him, 

(That is, of L}ipcrial Romc^ the ten-horned 
beast described in this chapter of Rev. 13 from 
vs. I to 12, which had perished at the hands 
of the Goths and Vandals ere the papacy 
arose to well-fixed dominion, which last event, 
most probably occured in the year 000 A. D. 



— 90 — 

when ''Vitallieii'' so called by his contempo- 
raries ''The Beast,'' by his decree pnt the mark 
of Rome on all the churches by decreeing the 
Latm and Roman tong^te alone to be used in 
their services. But some think the year A. D. 
800 when Charlmagne gave such solid supremac}^ 
to the Pope^ the date of the real seating of Papal 
Power^ while others think A. D. yoo the proper 
date?) 

And causeth the earth and them which dwell there- 
in to worship (or keep in rememberance, by using his 
language) thefrst beast whose deadly wound was healed. 

(This ''deadly wound'' "that Alaric and 
Attila and others gave, so cast down Rome's 
authority at the time that all the world "won- 
dered" if she Avould survive and rise again to 
do7ninion — or be healed of her deadly wound 
these barbarians had given her; but she did 
arise again to glory under the popes ^ and thus the 
"deadly wound w^as healed;" Then her failing 
greatness revived, and these popes did all they 
could to keep the world in azue of the very 7ia7ne 
of Rome as sacred, and so are properly said to 
make all the world zuorship the beast of ten 
horns that had perished but lived agaiji in the 
"Holy Roman Empire'', as it is called, of which 
the popes were the real head?) 

And he (the papal power,) doeth great wonders, 
so that he maketh fire come down from heaven upon 
the earth in the sisrht of men. 



— 91 — 

(Marvelous things they have already done, 
but perhaps this last is to be most fully realized 
yet in this later '^man of sin." God often gives it 
to the wicked to do great things in the wa}^ of 
miracles to establist their power and to deceive 
those who, desiring to follow their wicked ways 
and loose doctrines, desire to be deceived or 
convinced that such doctrine is true; but thej^ 
that are of the Truth shall not be deceived, 
because, as Jesus taught they look to their 
^'fruits," or the result of their doctrine, their 
lives, and see if they be Christlike^ for b\' 
their "fruits ye shall know them"; ^'Hereb}' we 
know the spirit of Christ and the spirit of 
error." — If these popes were really of Christ 
they would have lived more like Christ and 
not have been so fierce^ domineering and 
crueL Jannes and Jambres performed miracles 
but not by the power of God, but by that of the 
deviL Jannes and Jambres for a time by their 
wicked sorcer}^ withstood Moses, but at hist his 
serpent ate uj) tJieirs — so Christ shall in tl))ie 
brush away all this ^^strong delusion'' of Roman- 
ism or Catholicism fn^ni the earth, which, while 
so cunningly devised a fcible, has never yet 
imposed on or decieved those who, kiioiriwg titr 
word of God, and what God said tlius in his 
word Rome should do, expected to see this lamb- 
like beast-power ^>cr/or>y/ miracles^ and so deceive 



— 92 — 

the wicked — for He sa\^s ^'the ?/'/x^ shall under- 
stand^ but none of the wicked shall understand.'' 
Wh}^? Because having no faith in God's word 
but following rather the '^traditions of meiV^ 
''the writings of the Fathers^^^ the}' shall be 
imposed on b}/ these miracles, and shall take on 
them the mark of the beast, vainh^ imagining 
all the while that it is the mark of the Lanib^ 
Jesus our Lord, and so shall perish in their un- 
belief of God'S word, which is the sole guide of 
men and Christ alone for their Master, ap- 
pointed of God for '^leader and commander,'' 
and not the pope of Rome, who is really his 
Avorst rival, and The Antichrist. The law of 
God, the word saj^s, shall go forth from Jeru- 
salem, not from Rome, from Christ, not from 
the Pope, from the city of peace, not this cit}' 
of war, whose ver}^ name signifies violence; 
from Zion, the citj^ of Truth, not from this 
Roman stronghold of error. How much bet- 
ter is it then to receive from His word alone 
the ''Truth as it is in Jesus^^ or from Jesus, 
than accept it from Rome, which is often called 
in scripture Babylon^ because it shall be a city 
of confusion^ and her teaching shall be a mixture 
and conglomeration such as no man can compre- 
hend fully nor disentangle, since the writings 
of each of the so-called ^'Fathers of the Church," 
we find, contradicts the others in so many 



— 93 — 

places that no man can ^[find Ins v:ay^^ ^vith 
certainty through, all this chaos of docrine, All 
this Baylon, all this confusion. How different 
the simple ^^Truth as it is in Jesus," when of 
Him, by being baptized into him, as Paul sa3's, 
b}^ a '^True covenant" to take him alone for 
Lord and Master^ we receive of Him this ''Spirit 
of Truth" that shall ''lead us into all Truth," 
without the help of Pope or Rabbi. This it is 
to be "a free-man in Christ Jesus." Rome's 
yoke is different. 

This wondrous Spirit of truth that as he 
tells us, shall guide us into all truth, and so 
land us in Heaven if we follow it steadfastly — 
this Spirit shall be in our hearts, and when 
we start tov/ard error. Catholic error, Romish 
error, any error, shall say to us; "Turn ye this is 
the way walk ye in it," follow 3'our master alone, 
follow Christ alone, and push aside all those 
decieving popes and rabbles and hoty fathers, 
as Christ directed us to do. 

Let IK) man say, after reading these verses, 
that at Lourdes and other places real nfiraclcs 
have not been performed, and for centuries 
past, by so-called saints and priests, for (tod 
says thc}^ shall have this power and ^n^r/cr per- 
haps in tiriie than this; ])ut for (dl that he warus 
us in nuunj ways^ that it but holsfcrs up deception 
in doctrine, and they that know (lod and arc 



— 94 — 

wise with His spirit shall know exactly how to 
rate these miracles and how to reject Borne as 
teacher and follow the real Lamb, Jesus Christ 
the Prince of Peace. 

So it goes on to say; and (the papal power) 
decieveth them that dwell on the earth by the 
means of those miracles which he had power to 
do in the sight of the beast, saying to those 
that dwell on the earth that they should make 
an image to (or worship) the beast which had 
the wound by a sword and did live — ''(In other 
words, should bow down to Rome, and take her 
yohe^ and use her language in ivorship^ study her 
so-called philospohy, and confess her supremacy 
in all things.) 

And he had power to give life unto the image of the 
beast (had power to revive her authority, which had 
fallen down.) That the image of the beast should both 
speak (through her popes, ruling among men) and 
cause that as many as would not worship the image of 
the beast (would not acknowledge Romes supremacy 
and claim, like the Albigenses, etc.) should be killed. 
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, 
free and bound, to receive a mark in their right hand or 
in their forehead — 

(In joining the Romish church the sign of 
the cross is made on forehead and hand.) 

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that 
had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number 
of his uame. 



— 95 — 

{Boycotting began here; when the Hoh' 
Roman empire was at its height of power, all 
those who would not join the church of Rome 
nor submit, were excommunicated^ even though 
they were kings, and then all others were for- 
bidden to trade with them or do any act of kind- 
ness to them. And we find this the policy of 
Rome's church to-day, so that she dictates also 
to her people to vote for such only as are of her 
faith, or such as she can use; and we read of 
frequent notices from htr pulpits urging or com- 
manding the faithful to support such as are of 
her fold, or as favor her policy — for if she can- 
not elect those of her own, she elects those Pro- 
testants, so-called, who having no principle, but 
being weakkneed, she can use for Jier inirpose. 
The same old policy as of the olden time but, 
just now, lacking the former power to enforce it 
so ftilly. Father Cliiniquy says it is her policy 
to concentrate all her power in the cities, and 
this, we find, the case as in Tammany, etc.) 
Here is wisdom. 

(As much as to say if you ktnnu history and 

huve wisdom in God's word, better look into this 
and study the siniclitudc of this lamblike beast, 
lest you viistakc him for the True Lavih of God, 
and get Ills uiark on 3'ou iiislcad of Christ's and 
so be daDuicd^ as lacing in alliance loitli antichrist^ 
instead of liaviug your name ''on liiglT' in the 



— 96 — 

^''Lanib^s Book of life;'' onl}' such as are in His 
Book are saved as the scripture tells us; the 
7^esi are decieved and so, ^'believing a lie," are 
damned. A man who honestl}^ believe fire wont 
burn him will be burned all the same if he 
thrust his hand into it; so he that honestly 
thinks Rome the ''mother church," or a Chris- 
tian church, in \}ii^face of all that G^^^^has writ- 
ten here and elsewhere, is deceived to his own 
hnrt and damnation. Then consider, O ye wise 
if these things be not true, and if God does not 
call 5^ou, O! 3^ou deluded man, ^'come out of her 
my people." Here then God gives us the great 
mark and climax b}' means of which we may 
know whether this be the true church or not — 
she has a name graven on the ver}^ front of her 
crown or tiara which fixes hei- character and 
claim to all eternitj^, and no one iieed be decieved 
hy her miracles or her great profession or claims 
of Christianit3\ The words that appear on this 
tiara or crown of the pope, the man that stands 
to represe^it her authority — are these ^Svords of 
blaspheni}^," as God calls them, ^^Vicarius flii 
Dei\ which translated is, the vicar (or substi- 
t2tte) of the son of God — now take the latin 
mtcnerals in this name, and, as we have shown 
elsewhere, they give the ^''number of the 
name," quite a common 7nethod of determining 
or designating a nmne in the old time. Then the 



— 97 — 

number of this man that speaks such great 
things, and is the head of Rome tc-day, is 666, 
just as God \l2.^ pointed out more than a thousand 
years before he arose.) 

Let him that hath understanding count the number 
of the beast (papal power) for it is the number of a man. 
(no woman has ever been pope or can be, though she 
may be heir to all the other thrones on the earth; of a 
Tnan then is correct.) And his number is six hundred 
three score and six, (666). 

Hear then the conchtsion of all this teaching, 
wherein God has so ^^multiplied similitudes" to 
impress it on men — whoso takes Rome's mark 
or joins her church, partakes of the crimes of 
that church and will go to that pttnisJiment 
God says he has reserved for Babylon^ and for 
the lamblike beast, and those that belong to 
-him, or what is the same thing, that belong to 
the Roman Catholic church of to-day. Amen. 

Rev. X/V.'S-ij. 

And there followed anotlier angel saying Babylon 
(Rome, the spiritual Baljylon) is fallen is fallen — that 
great city, because she made all nations drink of tlie 
wine of the wrath of her fornication 

(That is she led all nations b}' her example 
and by entangled alliance witli her into iciekcd- 
ness, jnto a dicvc ''form of godliness'' which 
shall bring wraih from God.) 

And the third angel followed llicni sayinir with a 
loud voice; if any man worship the beast (papal power 



— 98 — 

or pope) and his image and receive his mark in his 
forehead or in his hand (that is. if any maj^ join the 
Romish Catholic church) the same shall drink of the 
wine of the wrath of God, — which is poured out without 
mixture into the cup of his indignation, (what a fearful 
picture of woe in this!) and he shall be tormented with 
fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels 
and in the presence of the Lamb, and the smoke of their 
torment ascendeth up forever and ever: and they have 
no rest (for their souls; this is found in serviyig Christ 
alone and not the Pope, in the Lamb, not the dragon so 
fierce.) day nor night who worship the beast and his 
image and whosoever recieveth the mark of his name. 
(I. E. submits to his claim as vicar, Xo. 666.) Here is 
the patience and the faith of the saints 

(God here stops to point out to his people 
that it wall take patience to endure all the op- 
j^ressions of this papal pov\'er and still 3'ield 
not but keep their faith, true to Jesics alone^ 
while, as He knevr before they should be, with 
wrack and thumbscrew they are tortured, while 
the voice of the priest of Holy inquisition shall 
shout in their ears, Recant, Recant, and submit 
to Rome, and take her mark, 01 God, what 
scenes of horror these words should call up 
and what heroic suffering endured for the 
name of Him that said ''take up the cross and 
follow me," me only, me alone. And now comes 
with this horror words of encouragement, a 
sweet voice of hope, to sustain those thus d3ung 
in faith, resting in the Lamb alone, and waiting 



— 99 — 

for his day of vengeance to come, when all 
things shall be made even.) 

Write blessed are the dead (though dying in tortures 
of Rome) who die in the Lord from henceforth; yea 
saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labors, 
and their works do follow the77i. 

(God will order rewards for such, besides 
the gift of salvation, making them ^^heirs of 

all things.) 

Rev. XIX:ig-2o. 

And I saw the beast (the fourth beast, Rome) and 
the kings of the earth (His evil allies) and their armies 
gathered together to make was against him that sat on 
the horse, 

(This Roman power, the ni3'stery of in- 
iquity opposing the mystery of godliness hid in 
Christ, by its sword first and then by its false 
teachings mis-called Christianity, should most of 
^//oppose tlie kingdom of the on-coming Christ, 
or Tlie Truth and from its ineeption should strive 
to ^'Cast the Triith to the ground,'' covcrinf!; it up 
under a worldly teaching of mere cxtoior )}i07'- 
ality without any chamjc of heart called for, thus 
hindering in every way its advance among 
men by siibstihtl ing in lis j^^acc this f/iraf roioifcr' 
feit.) 

And against his army (His /rue peo[^Je striving for His 
Truth, and refusing to swallow the Pope as Christ's 
substiticte) and the beast was taken (Tmi^erial Rome, first 
overthrown) and the false propliet (or Teacher, the 
I,am1)like beast.) that wrouglit miracles before him. 



— 100 — 

(That is the papal power which was to be 
a false teacher or prophet^ and work wondrous 
things and mar\^els, in seeming confirmation of 
their so-called Christian doctrine, with which he 
was to deceive men while ^'sitting in the 
Temple of God, thus claiming to be God.-') 

And both of these were cast alive unto a lake of fire 
and brimstone. 

(This means all those who forsook Christ 
to obe}' Rome, whether Pagan or so-called Chris- 
tian, whether Imperial or Papal, and the judg- 
ment is to be fuHy executed in the world to 
come, and is as 3'et not fnlly realized on earth, 
since the reynnants of papal power still remain, 
though crippled and decaying.) 

And the remnant were slain with the sword of Him 
that sat upon the horse, which sword proceedeth out of 
his vioutk. 

(This remnant refers no doubt to those, 
who while not a visible part of Rome's power; 
were yet conjoined with her in like wickedness^ 
and so, as it were, were vith her arrayed against 
the Lamb^ though not as a part of the Beast 
dominion. The sword of Christ going out of 
his mouth is his Trut/i and /azi\ and his u^ord 
of comrnand, which since he is King of Kings 
and Lord of Lords, and has all the forces of 
God at is command, sla\'s like a sword; for 
whom he has ordered to death 710 power can 



— 101 — 

keep alive — whosoever runs counter to his word or 
trangresses his truths as it were, casts himself 
against a drawn sword^ and is destroyed.) 
And all the fowls were filled with their flesh. 
(This is a thing yet to come, though as to 
Imperial Rome in her fall by Goths and Vand- 
als, it has been partly realized.) 



Rev, XVII . 

And there came one of the angels that had the seven 
vials (of judgment) and talked with me, sa^dng unto me, 
come hither; I will show thee the judgment of the great 
whore that sitteth upon many waters; 

With whom the kings of the earth have committed 
fornication (or been entangled in alliance) and the in- 
habitants of the earth have been made drunk with the 
wine of her fornication. 

(Or been bewitched and decieved with her 
pretenses^ claims^ 2M^ false doctrine^ w^hich are so 
plausible as to make as if dritnken or confused^ 
one intoxicated with her deception, her grand 
cermonies and her sorceries.) 

So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilder- 
ness: and I saw^ a woman (Papal Power) sit upon (as 
being upheld by) a scarlet-colored l)east (In similitude to 
the blood it had shed, as Pagan Rome) having seven 
heads and ten horns. 

(This is the same ten-horned beast seen 
/// many other visions^ but here the seven heads 
added symbolize more fully i\\Q seven liills on 
whicli Rome is situated and hence is called the 



— 102 — 

seven hilled city, which seven also correspond 
to the sevejt species of gover^ivient that complete 
the whole C3xle of Rome's greatness — Kings, 
Consuls, Decemvirs, Triumvirs, Dictators, 
Emperors and Popes.) 

Full of the names of blaspbem}^ (each name of hill 
or species of power was a name ot pride and blaspheiJiy 
as shown in another place.) And the woman (Papacy) 
was arrayed in purple and scarlet color [like the cardi- 
nals, etc.,] and decked with gold and precious stones and 
jewels [How these popes have adorned Rome with St. 
Peter's and all magnificiencel] and having a golden cup 
in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her 
fornication. 

(All the zvickedness that has flowed from 
her false teaching and her intrigues in the 
afifairs of nations, things very hateful to God.) 

And upon her forehead was a name written *'mys- 
er}', Babylon the great, mother of Harlots, and abomina- 
tions of the Earth." 

(This church, so-called, claiming to be the 
T7^7te Bride of Christ, has so tangled herself up 
in Xh^ polilics and worldly vanities of vien^ has so 
taken the defileinent of the luorldto her bosom that 
the Son of God, whom she calls her sp02tsey\L^x^ 
repitdiates her^ as not his Bride or true church — 
which must not be ''of the earth earthly," but 
pure and spiritual, and '^unspotted from the 
world" — he thus rep7idiates her false claim and 
calls her Harlot and the mother of the same, 



— 103 — 

and the parent sottrce and spring of harlotry, of 
abominations, or of things hateful to God, like 
all wordly vanities, church fairs, i^iKQx'Z worships 
grab-bags, etc., besides false teaching so radi- 
cal in its error as entirely to stand on a different 
basis from that of Christ's trne Church. As 
many will not understand how God can 7ise and 
permit this Harlot to be here, hindeiH^ig his 
truth, till it triumph in due time^ and as many 
will not undertsand how this so popular church 
can be so evil in the sight of God, to them it 
will be ''Babylon the Mystery^ To man}- a 
mystery or thing too deep for explanation but 
not so to those who, having the spirit of Christ 
— enter into deeper Tritth^ not judging b}^ the 
^' sight of the eyes^^ or outside^ but judging Rome 
by Her spirit or History and Doctrine as mani- 
fested in her acts in comparison with God's word. 
Thus to the majority it shall be a mystery, but 
one tmfolded and made more and more plain as 
time unfolds her histor}^ and true nature, so as to 
show with certainty that Rome is meant, al- 
though the name Babylon is used, because 
Rome and l^abylon were to l^e the same in their 
SPIRIT, in their destiny, in their hindrance to the 
TmitJi of God, and in persecuting and ruling Gocfs 
people. ]3oth were to defile (nnfs Sanctuary,) 

And I saw the woman (the Rcnnish Church) 
drunken with the l)lood of the saints, and of the 



— 104 — 

Martyrs of Jesics: and when I say her I wondered with 
great admiration. 

(Now the OLD Bab54on could not have slam 
the martyi^s of Jesics. For she perished long 
before Christ came.) 

And the angels said to me, wherefore didst thou 
marvel? It will tell thee the mystery of the woman and of 
the beast that carried her, that had seven heads and ten 
horns. 

(That is I will give 3^ou points that will 
make you identify these two vrith what they 
symbolize — Rome in her pagan or imperial 
power, and Rome in her so-called Christian, 
or papal power. Keep well it in mind now 
that God regands this citj^ as close kin to 
Babylon of old, in fact, we ma}^ sa5\ her daughter 
and LIKE HER, and so one w^ith her iit spirit^ and 
joined to Jic}^ in kinship, and all the rest will be 
plain, as here written. 

The beast that thou sawest was and is not, 
(This is her shadow or tj'pe; ancient Baby- 
lon existed and is ^t;;^^ dovrn, but still stirmves in 
this one^ in Rome, as appears when he says, 
'Svas and is not and yet is'' — That is, there 
survives in Rome now the spirit of ancient 
Babylon.) 

And shall ascend out of the bottomless pit 
(This was said to John A. D. 90, and it 
means shall do his evil work mainl}^ in the 
future and then perish in time.) 



— 105 — 

And goeth into perdition (or destruction); and they 
that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names as not 
written in the book of life from the foundation of the 
world, when they behold the beast that was and is not 
and yet is. 

(They that have the spirit of Truth, and 
whose names are ''on high," shall U7iderstand 
that this Rome is old Babylon i^evived^ and so 
will not wonder at all because they will know 
that God has drawn her picture in his word, 
many times^ using many similitudes, all most 
instructive and apt.) 

Here is the mind that hath widom. The seven heads 
are seven mountains (or hills) on which the woman 
sitteth. 

(As much as to say, any man of sense 
knows which is the seven-hilled city that is 
now ruling (A. D. 90) in the earth the same as 
old Babylon did in her time. Of course that 
city mztst have been Ronie^ and could be no other, 
and hence the Harlot is Rome's church, and 
this by ^'confirmation strong as proofs of Holy 
Writ.") 

And the beast that was and is not (old Babylon) 
even he is the eight. 

(This means that old Babylon had the 
same spirit of conquest and evil that shall be /// 
rt;// the seven various heads or species of ruling- 
power or government that shall make up the 
whole History of Rome, so that taken along 



— 106 — 

with these seven, which we have enumerated 
as Kings, Consuls, Decemvirs, Triumvirs, Dicta- 
tors, Emperors, and Popes the last — taken along 
with these seven^ Babylon of old was '^the 8th" 
like dominion, as having like oppression, and 
pride, and spirit as each of sM these 7 shall have; 
and when it is said he (old Babylon) is of the 
seven^ it only means that old Babylon's power 
was like each of these in its spirit^ or disposition 
to opp7'ess and invade and rule and decieve?) 

And the ten horns which thou sawest (we have 
shown in another place what ten divisions made up the 
Roman dominion at its height of power) are ten kings 
which have received no kingdom as 3^et (They were to 
become separate dominions after the dissolution of the 
Empire) but recieve power as kings one hour with the 
beast. 

(The one hour is an zincertain duration here 
— but marks the time during which these ten 
divisions of the earth shall stick to and uphold 
Imperial Rome.) 

These have one mind and shall give their power and 
strength unto the Beast (Imperial Rome.) These [both as 
Beast and whore] shall make war with the Lamb (cast 
down the Truth for a time) and the Lamb shall overcome 
them; for he is Lord of Lords and King of Kings. 

(In spite of all Rome can do to hinder 
Christ, he shall finally establish his kingdom in 
time on her ruins, and the Truth of Jesus shall 
fill the earth and Righteousness prevail ^'as the 



— 107 — 

waves of the sea." As Paul said, ''He that 
letteth or hmdereth (Rome's power hindering 
Christ and His Truth) shall let or hinder 
until he is taken out of the zuay or destroyed; 
which Christ is to &o ftdly by the ^^ brightness of 
his coming.") 

And he said unto me, the waters which thou sawest: 
where the whore sitteth (That is by which she is upheld) 
are peoples and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. 
(What a picture is this of Romes influence 

among the nations^ although it be for evil and 
against the Lamb and The Truth. But this 
Antichrist power cannot stand before that sivonl 
of Truths Christ is even now unsheathing. The 
Printing 2^"^^^^ was a fatal invention to Rome, and 
the light of Truth shall drive her at length from 
her last stronghold of error and lefuge of lies, 
that of the infallible j)opej for the common peo- 
ple will soon come to see through all her schemes 
and all her holy wickedness and will uphold her 
no more, being no longer under the ^'Sj)ell of 
her great name," nor '^bewitched by her sor- 
ceries;" and so the record goes on to tell us:) 

The fe?i Jiorns which thou sawest upon the beast, 
these shall ]iatc the whore (The Pope and his church) and 
shall make her desolate, and burn her with fire.** 

(There is a great revolt in Europe even now 
among the common people against the papacy, 
and there will be more and more as he seeks 
more and more ioj)ush his claimsto have Temporal 



— 1 s — 

authority again, which is at an end since 1871. 
This, no doubt, will in time put Europe in a 
ferment, and as those people are at length get- 
ting to know the true nature and inwardness 
of papal Domination, b}' reading her histor}^ 
they will revolt more and more until, under 
some great irritation and provocation coming 
thence, and inciting them, the}' will rise up and 
burn Rome ''with fire," and put an end to papal 
power forever, and make her desolate, and stop 
forever this mouth, speaking great things. So 
little is the pope upheld even now bj' these, 
who for so long have done his bidding, that we 
hear him sa}' again and again, ^'The future is 
in America;'- knowing that Europe is no longer 
loyal to him. But we maj' well sa}' who love 
her. Woe to America and her institutions when 
he shall become able to put his blight upon this 
country' as he has upon Spain and those states 
of Europe that do most hug him to their 
bosoms. This can never be in this country' if 
Americans are true to America^ and keeping 
awake to his designs^ and deaf to his flattery, vote 
with boldness, and solidl}', and stand against 
everj'thing that can increase his power upon our 
shores. So it tells us further; ''God hath put 
it into their hearts, (that is of these ten King- 
doms, mainh' located in Europe) to fulfill His 
will, and to agree^ and give their kingdon unto 



— 109 — 

the beast, iLUtil the tvords of God shcdl be ful- 
filled." And when these ten turn against him, 
the papal power shall perish forever from the 
the earth, which event is clearly near at hand. 
'And then, as if in order to leave no doubt in any 
mind as to what city is this one here called 
Babylon in this chapter — God banishes all un- 
certainly on this point by closing; ^^And the 
woman which thou sawest is that great cit}' — 
which reigneth, not has reigned but reignetJt 
noii\ reigneth A. D, 90^ over the kings of the 
earth. What city was that? It cotdd be no other 
than Rorae^ which then held sway in all the 
nations, and yet ruled them mostl}^ by their 
own Kings^ that she made as satraps under her 
and Tributaries, as they were called. 

O! Rome, Rome, ^'Eternal," and seven 
hilled city, that so long in pride hast ''op- 
pressed the meek," how long ere God shall 
number thee with the Babylon of old that ^'was 
and is not." How long ere thou shalt lie on 
scorched and broken pinions with the dead, 
while men shall say, '^Roma fuit, ct alta 
moenia Romae." 



Papal. 

Dan. VII\2^-2j. 

And the ten horns out of this kingdom (Imperial 
Rome) are ten Kings (or kingdoms, constituting Imperial 
Rome.) that shall rise; and another shall rise after 
them (the papal power that rose after Rome's first dis- 
integration, "wounded'' by the Goths and Vandals.) and 
he shall be differ eyit from the first, 

(Imperial Rome was solely a Temporal 
poirer and did not claim spiritual dominion; 
The papal was first a temporal and spiritual 
power combined^ the pope being the real head 
and the three Emperors of Germany, France 
and Ital}' which constituted the ''Holy Roman 
Empire,'' being but his vassals and doing his 
bidding; lastl}' it is, so-called, spiritual alone, 
as it exists to-day.) 

And he shall subdue three Kings, 
(This was done when Charlemagne, being 
crowned by the Pope at Rome, A. D. 800, sub- 
mitted his three Kingdoms^ France Italy and 
German}^, to this papal sway^ and thus estab- 
lished the Hoh' Roman Empire, that cut such 
a figure in the histor}' of the world for more 
than a thousand years.) 



— Ill — 

And he (The popes) shall speak great words 
against the most High. 

{Falsely claiming the sole right to represent 
Him on earth, and to have the Keys or control 
to the entrance of God's kingdom, which claim 
Christ sioecially denied and overthrew, when he 
said, ^^I am the door to the sheepfold" — ^'I am 
-the way, the Truths and the life^^ ^'By me if an}- 
man enter in he shall find pasture/' that is rest 
for his soul, and satisfaction in the inner man. 
"He opens and no man can shut.'') 

And shall zvear out the saints of the most High. 

(This the popes did with all inanner of 
persecittion against the Albigenses, Lutherans, 
LollardvS, Wicklifiites and Hussites, Arians, and 
all those who dared dispttte his false claim.) 

And shall think to change time and laws, 
(The Calendar of Gregor}- , and Dionj'sius 
Exiguus, and the papal decrees asserting the 
zvorld flat, and that the sun revolved about tJie 
earthy contrary to Galileo whom they imprisoned 
for denying it as if they thus thought to change 
the very laws of nature and of Ciod, fulfilled 
exactl}^ this prophecy of what they should doy 
changing laws or times.) 

And they shall be given into his liand until a time 
(360 years) times (2 time periods, or 720 years) and a 
dividing (or yi) of time (or »^ of 360 years = 180 years, 
making 1260 years in all, ])r()])ahly. and as commonly 



— 112 — 

estimated.) But the judgment shall sit and they shall 
take away his domiriion. 

(This was most probably accomplished in 
the main at Waterloo, A. D. 1815, when the 
nations, incited by the purpose of God, banded 
together and took away the dominion from 
Napoleon who then represented Rome, his little 
son being then crowned King of Rome^ and he 
evidently purposing to establish again her tini' 
versal doininion in the earth; so, at Waterloo the 
backbone oi papal authority^ no doubt, was broken^ 
and the decree is that God shall from that time 
^ ^DESTROY it unto THE END," that is diminish its 
power gradually b}^ change till Christ comes 
near at hand to set tip his luiiversal dominion^ to 
smite its feet and destroy it, and to take its 
place. Note here that whenever this papal 
do7ninio7i is mentioned by similitude in script^ire 
as often it is — we can ever see the coming Christ 
looming up beyond as the one that shall smite 
this, his worst opponent and hindrance in the 
earth, on the feet; and so, at its end the ^Himes 
of the ^entiles^^ ending thus^ a little before 
Him, this sto7ie^ which these proud ''builders" 
have ''rejected," in reality in order to build on 
Peter alone, shall then "fill the whole earth" 
with his glory and dominion, during his thou- 
sand years reign, while "the meek" shall with 
him "inherit the earth:" and so here also it 



— 113 — 

goes on to say; and the kingdom and dominion 
and the greatness of the kingdom under the 
whole heaven shall be given to the people of the 
saints of the most High (Christ's people) whose 
kingdom is an everlasting kingdom^ and all do- 
minions shall serve and obey Him. This is the 
coming Christ, her adversary. 



Dan. VIII:25, 

And through \s\s policy also [That is, Papal policy^ 
he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall 
magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy 
many. 

(Woe unto those individuals or nations 
who 7nake alliance with this ^^Crafty^ power, 
thinking to gain some advantage, iox by peace ^ 
or by union with ii^ we shall be damned, de- 
stroyed, or '^hugged into sna7rsy) 

He shall also stand up against the Prince of Princes. 

(Christ finds in this counterfeit clinrch, the 

cjreat opj)one7it to his real cJinrcJi^ tlu/se who seek 

to have Hivi alone for Master^ and who refuse 

this hogits Christy the j)ope.) 

The narrative then proceeds; but he (The pajxil 
power) shall l)e broken without hand. 

(That is without hand of uian directly, as 
God shall bring to pass events that shall finish 
its authority; perhaps in part l)y C())ir('rtt)Hj so 
many of the Catholics, in this cnliiihtciicd agCy 
that his power shall gradually fade away and 



— 114 — 

end, as it seems to be doing now. In that it 
says, b}^ peace he shall destroy many, we of this 
land will do well to see to it that our country 
and its politics is entangled as little as possible 
with this Romish Power; we must insist on an 
absolute and eternal separation of church and 
state in this nation, and insist on no state favors 
for the poeple who owe superior allegiance to 
this foreign ruler at Rome. This it is our in- 
terest and dut}' to do, putting Catholics just on 
the same footing as others, but giving them no 
greater fovor or prestige than others, or than 
their numbers (about one seventh of our popu- 
lation) warrant. It is surely out of place that 
nine tenths of the offices should be filled with 
the subjects of this foreign power when they con- 
stitute only one seventh of the population of a 
representative government. We should ever 
keep in mind that God sa\'s, by peace she shall 
destroj^ many. Let us then steer clear of any 
entangling alliance with Monsignor Satolli and 
the like, — as ice value the prosperity of our coun- 
try, for while this power, being now on the 
down grade, cries out so against ^'intolerance,'- 
we know well, that had she her former prestige, 
she would be the first to despise these, her so 
liberal utterances, about tolerance, which seem 
so ill fitted to her mouth, when we consider 
her history in the past — when for ages she 



— 115 — 

brooked no diff^ei^ence of opinion in any matters 
that slie called of religion. Millions of corpses^ 
crying from their tombs, could attest her intoler- 
ance when she had the power, and since Rome 
never changes in her spirit and ambitions pur- 
pose, the world may well deride the sincerity of 
this her late apparently ^r^<^/ desire for toler- 
ance. Theyb:rV hide is too shorty we fear, in this 
instance to conceal the lion^s claw. 

Surely the signs of the times do indicate 
that he that now letteth, or hindreth, Christ's 
kingdom coming shall soon let (hinder) no 
more, being, as the scripture expresses it, 
^'taken out of the way'' by the hand of God 
that has used him for so many centuries, wisel}'^ 
to test the patience of his saints^ and, as it were, to 
brighten their shield of faith. It is wonderful 
how thus God ^'makes the very zv7^ath of man to 
praise him,'' and get8 glory out of the seeming 
evil^ and the very rage of his adversaries^ surel\' 
He is a wonder — working God, and his ways 
^^past finding out" to perfection, and yet He 
has said truly He would ^'do vothing in the 
earth but that he would first reveal it (in out- 
line) to his servants the Prophets;" aud so we 
find in raising up this great Fourth beast of 
Rome, as tlie fa)i /// //Is hand, to ^*purge his 
floor," that God has olorificd Himself, and will 
glorify his luinie crc long^ more and more, in her 



lU) — 



destruction, and has told of its final destiny, 
again and again^ in scripture. 



Daniel VIII:i2, 

And a host [a great power,] was given Him [Rome] 
againsf the daily sacrifice, [Titus, A. D. 70] and it cast 
down the Truth to the ground, and it practiced and 
prospered. 

(It crucified Jesus, and also cast Jesus to 
the ground in another way in order to elevate 
Peter and Rome, by the pretence that Christ's 
Church was to be built oit Peter instead of on 
Christ alone^ as the '^foundation stone, elect and 
precious, laid in Zion," on whom (not on pope 
or Peter,) it is said if one believe he shall njot be 
confounded?) 

Daniel XI:j6-jg. 

And the king [Popes] shall do according to his 
will; [not Christ's \\\\\] and he shall exalt himself, and 
magnify himself above every God, [shall sit in the 
Temple of God, claiming that he is God on earthy'] and 
shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, 
\_claiming to be His vicegerent, while only a poor sinful 
lump of clay,] and shall prosper till the indignation be 
accomplished: (against the Jews) for that is determined 
shall be done. (Times of gentiles over.) Neither shall 
he (Popes) regard the God of his fathers, {fupitor and 
the like) nor the desire of w^omen, (there popes shall not 
have wives) nor regard an}^ god: 

(Why sho7ildh^^ while claiming in eff'ect to 
be a god of such power himself that he can 



— 117 — 

empty purgatory — depopulate Hell, and fill 
heaven any day with millions of wicked. And 
yet he is able to deceive millions into believing 
this false claim.) 

For he shall magnify himself above all. 
(He still claims to be sitperior to all kings 
on the earth, and yet now whines oi^^being a 
prisoner in the Vatican," while King Humbert 
holds his palace on the Quirinal. This looks a 
little inconsistent^ to say the least.) 

But in his estate shall he honor the God of forces 
[That is, an invisible god:] and a god v/hom his fathers 
knew not, [a mixhire of Jehovah and Jove^ he shall 
honor with gold and silver, and precious stones, and 
pleasant things, [adorning great Cathedrals with pict- 
ures, etc.] Thus shall he do in the most strong holds 
[St. Angelo's Castle adjoins the Vatican, and is part of it] 
with a strange god [Truly a strange god^ unlike Jove a 
little, but being unlike\\\^ true Christy the image of God, 
is also unlike Jehovah, and a strange mixttire'] whom he 
shall acknowledge and increase with glory: And he 
shall cause them [His bishops and cardinals] to rule 
over many and shall divide the land iov gain. 

(The whole earth he has divided into 
bishoprics^ for the collection of tithes, petcr\s 
pence, indulgencies, fees; and other gain is 
sought in every possible way that cunning 
could devise when incited l)y greed.) 

2nd I'lsdras iilli Chapter. 
Then saw 1 a cheam, and hehohl, there came up 
from the sea an eai^le [Rome] which \vm\ twelve feather 



— 118 — 

ed wings [The 12 Caesars, by whose genius — principally 
she rose to grandeur and height,] and three heads [The 
triple kingdom of the Holy Roman Empire, with its 
triple cro'W7i.'\ But the heads were at rest (or waited), 
the head in the midst was greater the other, (France 
perhaps.) Yet it rested (or waited,) with the residue. 

And the eagle said, let the heads be preserved for 
the last (That is until her course is almost run, or 
after the Empire shall rise and fall.) 

And I beheld and lo, the voice went not out from 
her heads, but from the midst of the body. 

(This is most sig7iificant^ as showing that 
the real power in these three kingdoms of 
France, Italy and Germany, constituting the 
Holy Roman Empire, did not reside in their 
respective kings^ or heads, but was resident in 
the midst of the body^ that is, at Rome^ the centre 
where the voice of the popes was, the real voice 
that ruled them more than their nominal kings, 
which were but his pappets to do his biddings 
and ^^ accomplish his wicked7tess^\^ 

And so it goes on to tell that in later times: ''There 
were no more upon the eagle's body, but three heads that 
rested, and six little wings (six small minor powers, per- 
haps, that were adjuncts of these other great kingdoms 
of France, Italy and Germany.) 

It goes on to tell how two little feathers 
(The Lombards and the Saracens, most prob- 
ably) aimed to reign — when the head that w^as 
in the midst (France) which was the greater 
aroused itself and joined with the other two 



— 119 — 

heads, Germany and Italy, (nnder Pepin or his 
son Charlemagne) eat them up or destroyed 
them, and so consolidated these three dominions, 
and pnt them nnder the thumb or toe of the 
popes, A. D. 800.) So it proceeds; 

But this head (France at the head of the Holy 
Roman Empire) put the whole earth in fear, and bear 
rule in it over all those that dwelt upon the earth with 
much oppression (which made what is called the ''dark 
ages^'); and it had the governance of the earth, more 
than all the wings that had been; (For it ruled the 
spirits as well as the bodies of men.) after showing sim- 
litudes for contentions among these Three heads, the 
narrative proceeds; ''And I heard a voice which said 
unto me, Look before Thee, and consider the thing thou 
seest. 

And I beheld, and lo, a roaring lion, (great Britain 
perhaps, and most likely) as it were chased out of the 
wood, (or this may stand for the Lion of the Tribe of 
Judah, who yet works his will by the acts of nations and 
Tnen") and I saw that he sent out a man's voice unto the 
eagle {Represented then, perhaps, at Waterloo, in the 
person of Napoleon) and said; 

Hear thou, I will talk with thee, and the Hic^liest 
shall say unto thee; ("The Judgment shall sit and take 
away his dominion," so it says in another place.) Art 
thou not \\. W\?X rcmainest, (Napoleon, the rorniaut o{ 
Rome's power, standing for the Holy Roman lunpire.) 
of the FOUR beasts whom I made to rule in my irorld 
[Babylon, Mcdo Persia, Alexander, and Rome] with 
great fearfulness, and, over the whole compass of the 
earth, with much wicked oppression. 



— 120 — 

For thou hast afflicted the 7neek, thou hast hurt the 
peacable, thou hast loved liars, and destroyed the dwell- 
ings of those who brought forth fruit, and hast cast 
down the walls of such as did thee no harm (what a 
true picture is this of Roman avarice, cruelty and de- 
ception, both pagan and papal!) Therefore is thy wrong- 
ful dealing come up unto the Highest, and thy pride 
unto the mighty. The Highest hath also looked upon 
the proud ti)nes, (yoM thought because 3'ou had ruled a 
long time that 3^our end would never come, and were so 
proud, eternal cit}'!) and behold they are ended, and his 
abojninations are fulfilled. 

And therefore appear 7io more thou eagle, (with 3'our 
triple CRowx) nor thy terrible wings, nor thy wicked 
feathers, nor thy malicious heads, nor thy hurtful claws, 
nor thy vain body. 

That all the earth may be refreshed and return (unto 
God) being delivered from thy violeiice, and that she may 
hope for the judgment and mercy of Him that made her. 
(Jesus in the Millenuimn.)* 

Thank God, that \ve in this countr}^, at 
least to a great degree, realize this refreshmg 
freedom from her power and claws and malicious 
heads! Thank God for Waterloo, all the hu- 
man race! Thank God for Victor Immanuel, 
and King Humbert, and Queen Victoria, and 
Emperor William, and President Faure in 
France; ma}' others like these succeed to ''de- 
stroy it tcnto the eiici'^ — till Christ comes ere long, 
and sets up His, the Fifth tcniversal reign, that 
shall soon follow after this great power of evil 
in the earth, when this sotcire of iniquity, and 



— 121 — 

stronghold of the Dragon is no more. But for 
us, even in this remote region, to contitme to 
realize this freedom clearly, we need ''''eternal 
vigilance^' against him, who says ''The fittzire 
is in America,^^ After telling of this rebuke, it 
points out that the two heads that survive, 
(France and Italy, perhaps) shall be at the end 
kingdoms, ^''S7nall and full of ttp^^oar^^ as we 
find them to be to-day, and then comes the 
final stroke, yet to come — when great Babylon 
the second shall fall and rise no more; 

And I saw, and behold, they (all the three heads) 
appeared no more, and the whole body of the eagle (all 
Rome's dominion) was burnt, so that the earth was in 
great fear. (So long has she bewitched mankind with 
her sorceries!) 

Then follows on the interpretation which 
the angel says refers to the ^'last times,'' that 
is, those after the Christian era begins: those 
before the Christian era, are commonly called 
the ^^former times," in scripture. As showing 
how God midliplics siinliludcs, of this Great one 
of Rome, the Angel tells Esdras this vision 
sets forth truths with regard to the ^^sanic king- 
dom showni to his brother Daniel,'' (His brother 
in Christ; see Dan. 7th cliapt.) but says it was 
not so fully explained to Daniel — as in this vis- 
ion of the eagle; and this we can readily see is 
true, as herein the Spirit goes more lotto (trtaih^. 



— 122 — 

But to take up that part remaining with regard 
to the papacy: 

And whereas thou sawest three heads resting, (or 
waiting for the last end.) this is the interpretation: In 
the /asf days shall the most High raise up three king- 
doms. 

(Note how in other places this sam>e idea of 
the three kingdoms constituting \^i^ papal poiver^ 
or "Holy Roman Empire,'' is set forth; the lit- 
tle horn that had eyes and a great mouth, 
plucked up three of the ten by the roots, and in 
another place it says, He, the pope, shall "su6- 
due three kings ^^^ etc., showing all these visions 
appertaining to the same circumstances^ and to the 
latter end of Romes' Dominion, or the papacy?) 

And shall renew many thing therein (shall restore 
Rome to her Imperial grandeur from which she fell, upon 
the deadly wound given b}" the hand of Goths and Vandals) 
and they shall have (The popes, by ruling these three 
kingdoms of the Holy Roman Empire,) the dominion of 
the earth, and of all those that dwell therein with 7nuck 
oppressioji, (If any one doubts whether the popes of old 
ruled cruelly, with fagot and wrack,* let then note what 
God says of it.) above all that were before them (worse 
than Nero and Caligula.) Therefore are they called the 
heads of the eagle. (The eagle will ever tear the dove, and 
these men of the flesh, proud ones, tore asunder God's 77ie7i 
of the spirit, the meek of the earth.) 

For these are they that shall accomplish his (the 
popes) wickedness, 



— 123 — 

(When a Catholic is told of these murders 
of Lollards and Albigenses, he often answers, 
\h.^ popes were not responsible^ the civil powei^s did 
it; but God says here, they were but mere in- 
strument in the pope^s hands^ to do his will; and 
we know this is so, and that those popes ordered 
these so-called Crusades against heretics, and 
ordered Te Deums sung at Rome in approval, 
and rejoicing, whenever such so-called heretics 
were burned or slain, for naught but opinion.) 

And shall finish his last end, 
(That is when France and Italy f^dhj 
desert the papacy, as seems probable now soon 
\\.s full end s^2^ come, most likely, at once; for 
Germany practically destroyed this coalition 
long ago, it seems, Luther being the leader. 
This seems to tell how, Italy and France shall 
end; ^^The sword of the one shall devour the 
other; but at the last he shall fall through the 
sword himself." 

And the Lion, 

(May be England, at Waterloo, or perhaps 
the lion of Judah's Tribe, which, some think 
the British lion is only the symbol of, and his 
a<^ent, as it were, among the nations now exist- 
ing, to aid most of all in setting up His king- 
dom, in due time.) 

Whom thou sawest risini; out of the wood, and roar- 
ing, and spcakini; to tlic lvai;lc (RoiikO and relnikini;- her 



— 124 — 

for her unrighteousness, with all the words which thou 
hast heard: 

This is the anointed (or appointed one) which the 
Highest has kept for them, and for their wickedness unto 
the end: he shall reprove them, and shall upbraid them 
w4th their cruelty. 

For He (this Lion) shall set them before him alive 
iji Judg}?ient, (this does look like ?'eal war, such as was at 
Waterloo) and shall rebuke and correct them. 

For the rest of my people shall he (England) deliver 
with mercy (from Rome's yoke) those that have been 
preserved iipoji viy borders (England was long a place of 
refuge to all those oppressed by these three eagle heads.) 
and He shall make them joyful unto the coming of the 
day of judgment. 

(Xot uecessarih^ the firial judgment of the 
great white throne, but more probab}^ the 
intermediate judgment against this Babj^lon, 
when Christ shall begin to come tor full deliv- 
erance to his own, and for vengeance on his 
foes.) 

Whereof I have spoken unto thee from the begin- 
7iing. 

(B}^ all the old j^rophets again and again 
telling of Rome under figures and similitudes, 
and what she should do to the saints of God, 
till her end.) 

There are many things in these two chap- 
ters that refer to Rome's Imperial Dominion 
more especially, which I have set down in 
another place. 



Chapter XI. 

The Fifth great Universal Dominion, 

That of Christ, yet to Come. 



As we have intimated heretofore, in tJiis 
place, we will set down those portions of the 
scripture symbolizing the fact that soon after 
the end of the Fourth beast, that of Rome, Jesus, 
The Christ, will set up on the earth his uni- 
versal kingdom, that shall abide and endure for- 
ever. Many think this will be only what 
they call a spiritual kingdom, and Christ him- 
self will not be bodily present among his people, 
but will still keep aloof, and ^^on high'' at it 
were. What is to be gained by this supposition, 
and what scriptures confirm that notion^ is more 
than I can find. On the other hand nuiny 
many passages iterate and reiterate, that '4n 
like nianner^^ as he left — which all admit was 
with body and with bortcs^ as he showed his 
disciples, and not as a spirit — so shall he re- 
turn; then, if he left with his bodily presence, 
he will '^come again'' with his real true human, 
and divine^ and j^odlike self, and a'//// /;//// the 
7neek^ now ready to "inlieret all lliiiii;s'' besides 
in due time, will be<ii}i l)y ''inheriting the 



— 126 — 

earth. " And He, no donbt, will keep his word 
— to give the Twelve Apostles the ^'Twelve 
thones of Israel/' and will fulfill to a dot what 
the Prophets said of him — that he should make 
his childf-en (all his people, begotten of his spirit) 
princes in the earth. Speaking of the kingdom 
of the Jews, it also says ''overturn, overturn, 
overturn it, till he shall come whose 7'ight it is^ 
(as son of David) and I will give it Him.'^ 
And then again, the}^ ''shall look upon him 
whom the}' pierced, and mourn for him as one 
mourning the loss of an only son'' — all the cir- 
cumstances here showing that this should oc- 
cur at Jerusalem^ when ''Zion should be built 
again," as a ''citj^ without walls.'' What need 
of lualls when she has such a defender? And 
again, ''He shall rule them (the nations in the 
"four quarters,") with a rod of iron (strong 
power) and "dash them to pieces as a potter's 
vessel" — that is, his adversaries — hut Jerusalem 
shall be inhabited again, and the people 
"settled again after their old estates^'^ and the 
line shall be be stretched over her dividing tr/ie 
la7id to the people, and '*boys and girls shall 
3'et joy in her streets/' Then shall we see Him 
no longer "through a glass darkly," (or by 
faith) hut face to face as he talked with common 
men in the old time, and held himself only as 
a divinly sent "son of man," who, blessed and 



— 127 — 

annointed of God as Messiah, liad His Spirit 
^Vithout measure," and so, in this sense^ was 
^^one with Him^^ in the Godliness of his disposi- 
tion^ and the holiness of his characte^^ — and yet 
was appointed ^Xord over all the earth" by the 
Father in Heaven. I will note here, that it is 
my conclusion, from much reading of the scrip- 
tures, that this universal reign of Jesus, while 
most blessed io t}ios^ gathered at Zion^ and hav- 
ing his '^seal in their forehead," will be the 
beginning of plagues^ and of that ''great day of 
wrath (Rev. 6:16-17) for all those in the ''four 
quarters" of the earth, or outside of Canaan^ 
those not ready for his coming. These ])lagues 
will fall on such at intervals from that time on 
for a period of 1600 years^ which, I take it, is 
symbolized by the "1600 furlongs" over which 
track the blood flowed out while the "winepress 
of wrath" was filled witli the "vine of the 
earth" (wicked) and trodden "outsidk the 
city;" that is, these plagues did not fall in 
Zion, but in the four quarters of the earth 
remote from Palestine, where for 1600 years 
and over, the people of the Dragon sliall 
reside during this period. As far as I can sec, 
the "one-third" plagues, the first seven men- 
tioned in Revelation, will fall on such alone, 
during the millennium or 1000 years reign; 
the "seven last plagues," wherein God's wrath is 



— 128 — 

^^FILLED Up" or expends itself — will be sent on 
wicked after the millennmm is over, and until 
the world is ready for its final baptism of fire, 
A. M. 8000. But during this period of 1000 
years and during the 630 I think to follow it to 
the e7id^ ""^ naught shall hurt in all Tny Holy nioun- 
tain;^^ for God, having these ^^four winds" of 
disaster completely under His control, can bid 
them fall in any desired place, and not touch 
those, though in the earth with the wicked, 
who have the ^^seal of God in their foreheads," 
in other words, his people. At Zion shall be a 
quiet habitation for ^^the meek," where they 
have cattle, and vines, and silver, and gold, 
and fig trees, and '^eat the riches of the Gen- 
tiles," which God has provided for their sup- 
port, while these others shall be their ^'vine- 
dressers and husbandmen," being under tribute 
to Christ, ''submitting themselves with pieces 
of silver." With this much of prelude, I will 
now set forth those scriptures showing Christ 
as the great adversary and final successor of the 
popes, and of Rome, as also some others giving 
a general idea of the millenial condition on earth 
during ^Hhat day^^ which is so bright to God^s 
people^ but a "day of darkness^ to those who 
know Him not, whose lamps lacked the oil of 
His spirit. These, now running from one dis- 
aster and plague to another, shall be as a man 



— 129 — 

wlio meeting a lion and fleeing, falls into tlie 
month of a bear, and escaping thence into a 
house, shall pnt his hand upon a scorpion on 
the wall. This is the Terrible pictm^e and 
simlitude of that, the ''great day of his wrath,'' 
that shall come upon those who are not His 
own — not his elect, but as unwise virgins with 
no oil in the lamps, are not ready to meet the 
Lord when he comes to claim his Bride, which 
is the True Church. All they that are ^^of the 
Truth^^ and led by His spirit of Truth, such 
are the chosen, such alo7te ''belong to The 
Church^' indeed, and in truth. 



Dan. II:34--35 ^^^^ 43-45- 

After describing the great image of a man, 
the legs, and feet, and toes of which, as we have 
pointed out already, symbolize Rome, first un- 
der Temporal princes, and then under the ^^- 
called^ spiritual princes ^ the popes, it adds: 

''Thou sav/est that a stone was cut out of the moun- 
tain without hands (''The shepherd, the stone of Israel,'' 
Jesus) which smote the image upon his feet (at his latter 
end or Terminus^ that were of iron and clay, 

(Signifying the union of temporal and 
spiritual authority in the popes that, after 
such long experiment will not stick together^ or 
coalesce, as is shown in the status of aifairs in 
that city to-day, where King Humbert has his 



— 130 — 

Palace on the Ouirinal and the pope his in the 
Vatican — but they do not co-operate at all, and 
are hostile one to another.) 

It smote the image on its feet that were of iron, and 
clay, and brake them to pieces. 

And then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the 
silver and the gold, broken to pieces together, 

{^All kinds of king — power shall fall be- 
fore Christ, that he may be ^Xord over all the 
earth," ruling as none of these kings have 
done,'' in righteousness^ and tiuth.") 

These were broken to pieces together, and became as 
the chaff of the summer threshing floor; and the w^ind 
carried them away, that 7io place ivas fotuid for them; and 
the stone that smote the image became a great vionntaiii, 
and filled the whole earth, 

(''This is the Hill the Lord hath desired 
to dwell in," — in Jesus, by his Spirit, and it 
alone is a "high hill as the hill of Bashan". Sink 
sink down before him, all ye hills of Rome, 
and walls of Babylon, and swords of Cyrus, 
and brazen Helmets of Alexander, and pass 
away as chaff! This is the way God rates the 
so-called ^"^nilitaiy glory," that these so labored, 
and lived, and died to establish; it is as chaffs 
and shall not abide; the "men of peace^^ in 
whom is the Prince of Peace, these alone htild 
for eternity, the men of Christlike mould, and 
Godlike spirit, the "Godly.") 

And in the 45th verse after telling how 



— 131 — 

this papal power shall ''mingle themselves with 
the seed of men ^^ or become tangled up in world- 
ly strife^ dindi politics^ so unbecoming \\i^\r profess- 
ion of Christy and, after telling how they will 
not ^^cleave together^^ or stand united in the end, 
the 45th verse tells us;) 

In the days of these kings (Emperors and popes) 
shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom (in spite of 
their hindrance) which shall never he destroyed: and this 
kingdom shall not be left to other people (as Alexander's 
was, for Jesus will live forever to hold the sceptre) but 
it shall break in pieces, and consume all these kingdoms, 
and it shall stand forever. 

Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out 
of the mountain without hands, (Jesus was brought forth 
without man's intervention, the seed ot the woman alone, 
by the Spirit or poiuer of God) and that it brake in pieces 
the clay, the silver, the gold; the great God maketh 
known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter; 
and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof 
TRUE. 



Ban. XI 1: 1-3. 

(In the precedi72g chapter, which, in my 
judgment, should never have been detached 
from this one, after describing Rome's history 
in much detail^ so that you can see Augustus as 
the ''raiser of Taxes,'' and Titus as '* taking 
away the daily sacrifice,'' and Rome under the 
popes exalting herself, and worshipping '*a 
strange God," the ''God of forces," — a sort of 



— 132 — 

mixture i){ Jehovah^ and Jove, as it is, in the last 
five verses it seems to set forth a picture of the 
remnant of the Roman power temporal, or the 
Holy Roman Empire, as it existed under 
Napoler)n, as invading Egypt with ships, and 
planting the ''tabernacles of his palace between 
the seas" in the glorious (so-called) holy moun- 
tain of Rome, no doubt, where God regarded 
him as having his centre and stronghold, and of 
which he was the great champion; then follows 
this 1 2 th chapter;) 

And at that time, 

(Not necessarily at the moment Napoleon 
fell, broken at Waterloo, but probabU^ soon 
after in God's ordained order of sequence and 
development, which moves slow and statel}^, and 
never hurries, nor is late.) 

At that time shall Michael, 

(Another name for Jesus, most probablj", 
the great adversar}^ of this seven headed 
Dragon, which He was destined to cast from 
his high fitation^ or from Heaven/' as recited in 
Revelation.) 

Shall stand up, the great prince which siandeth for 
the children of m}' people; and there shall be a time of 
trouble, 

(Same as expressed by those "earthquakes," 
referred to in Rev., which occurs on the open- 
ing of the 6th seal, or the year 6ooo A. M., 



— 133 — 

period probably, and whicb Christ called ^'Trib- 
ulations," and which he said should *^precede 
his coming" — tribulation being a strong ivord of 
such significance as if he had said, God would 
pass the world through a threshing machine at 
that time, as it were, to separate chafi" from 
wheat, for the millennial garner, and for the 
^'winepress of wrath," as to the chaff.) 

A time of trouble such as never was vsincc there was 
a nation, even to that same time. 

(Any one who will cast his eye over the 
world at th.^ present time^ and note the, forces of 
good and evil arrayed against each other, ready 
to clash, and waiting like lions for their spring, 
can easily conclude that we are even novv^, prob- 
ably, in the very edge of this'^ Great Tribulation^^ 
period, which, in my humble judgment, will 
occur between this time, and the 24th century 
of our era, when, I think, the Lord will be 
fully revealed to all eyes, and '^cleanse the 
sanctuary." — This ^Snan of sin," at Rome, who 
has so long *7ci5" (or hindi-ed) His work, the 
Master will first destroy, not by his coming^ 
but by the brightness of his coming, by his 
'near approach. Just as an engine's headlight 
throws the brightness down the track ahead of 
it, so pr()1)ably, Christ's trutli, working among 
men more and more, shall at last slay oil fhi^ 



— 134 — 

papal error^ with the brightness of his coming 
and the spirit of His mouth, His Truth. 

If I figure aright on the period of Rome's 
duration, in earth, his final climax will prob- 
abl}^ be consummated, and this great Harlot 
city burned with fire'' by those she has so long 
deluded, and who have so long served her pur- 
pose, in 1960 A. D., or close there-about. God 
certainly sets it down that the papal power 
shall last just as long as the Temporal or 
Pagan power did, which was 1260 years, and 
this papal power most certainly was first set up 
to ride about A. D. 800, or most likely A. D. 
700, or 666 when Vitallian, who was ^'surnamed 
the Beasty^^ made his decree that all the Christian 
Churches should worship in Rome^s tongue^ the 
Latin A. D. 700 the popes first set up a tem- 
posal dominion, after rebelling against the 
exarchate, the Ravenna. So this verse one 
goes on;) 

At that time shall thy people, {all Godly and Christ- 
like people, as Daniel was,) shall be delivered, 

(From Roman oppression, and all this op- 
pression of the Gentiles, wliich began when 
Nebuchadnezzah destro3'ed the temple,) 
Every one that shall be written in the book. 
(The Lambs book of life; all Jews who are 
true Jews in faith and good lives, and all 
Christians who are made Jews in spirit, through 



— 135 — 

real faith in Christ, and accepting Him as 
Master by a Tnie covenent.) 

And many that sleep in the dust of the earth shall 
awake, some to everlasting life, (The first Resurrection 
which takes place when Jesus comes, propably A. D. 
2370 or 2333,) and some to shame and everlasting con- 
tempt. 

(These last, as shown in Revelation, shall 
arise long after the millennial period is over, 
some 630 years, and about A. D. 4000, as I 
figure it, and after the seven last plagues are 
poured out on the wicked living in the four 
quarters of the earth, whom the Devil, then 
turned loose, shall incite to open rebellion 
against the reigning Christ, but they are here 
mentioned together only as events foUowing his 
coming, and so in that dispensation?) 
And they that be wise, 

(All true Christians^ wise unto salvation; 
not those wise wdtli the ^Svisdom of this 
world," in matters of war, business, or so- 
called science.) 

These shall shine as the l)nghuiess ot the firm:iniciit 
and they that turn ninny to Rii^hteousiicss shall shine as 
the stars forever and ever. 

(That is, to true Christianity, to the ^^.ord 
our Rightousness,'' not to mere Dioralijy or sclf- 
righteousncss, as Rome docs, teaching salvation 
by good works, which is as filthy rags to (lod, 
but rather to abidif/o- ) ii^h/IieoNSJiess, whicli is 



— \Sij — 

planted of God^ in the hearts of those that accept 
Jesus alone as master^ to t\ie converting of the 
sotiL Such shall shine as the stars then for 
ever and ever. Who will bid for this immortal 
crown? 

Who will take the ^'mark of the La^nb'' 
alone^ and shun the mark of Rome, the ^'mark 
of the beast," so fatal in that day? Plagues, it 
is said (Rev. 14:9-11), shall be in that day for 
those that are of Rome and have her mark, and 
own her authority. Amen. 



Rev. 13th and 14th Chapters. 

In this 13th Chapter, after describing the 
ten-horned beast of Imperial Rome, and the 
beast with two horns like a lamb that should 
succeed him as the papal power. No. 666 — 
which is therein shown to have a like persecut- 
ing spirit as the first against God's true people 
in the earth, there follows in the next chapter, 
which in my judgment should not be separated 
from the 13th, but is a part of its narrative, 
in verse one of the 14th chapt. a picture of Jesus 
looming up, as usual, at the end of this No. 
666 beast, — the papal power; 

And I looked, and lo, a lyamb stood on the mount 
Zion, (King of the Jews restored) and with Him a hun- 
dred and fort\^ and four thousand, having his Father's 
name written in their forehead. 



— 137 — 

(Same as having the seal of God upon 
them as stated in another place in setting forth 
this same circnmstance but with another sym- 
bol concerning which note that in Rev. 7th it 
occurs soon after the 6th seal was opened, and 
after the tribulations had passed.) 

And I heard a voice from heaven, (or from on high, 
as this expression sometimes signifies) as the voice of 
many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: 

(These voices came, no doubt, from that 
great multitude of ^'strangers,'' or Christians, 
^'joined to them" — which no man could num- 
ber, out of all nations of the earth.) 

And I heard the voice of harpers harping on their 
harps: (That will be a glad day on high when all the 
Babylons have fallen that hindered Christ in the earth!) 
and they sang, as it were, a new song before the throne 
and before the four beasts, (The four beasts now at length 
being conquered of Christ, of which Rome is the last, or 
4th) and the elders: (Prophets and Apostles whom these 
four powers slew) and no man could learn that song but 
the hundred and forty and four thousand which were 
** virgins," it goes on to tell us. 

(We stop to remark what a reward is to 
those who, as Christ, have made thrmselvcs 
eunuchs or virgins for the kingdom of hcavou's 
sake!) 

/^ev. 6th a)id yf/i r/iapfrrs. 

If I am right in my supposition that the sex- 
en seals, referred to in llie 6tli eliapter, are each 



— 13> — 

opened as a thousand 3'ears' period in the histo- 
r\' of man on earth ends, and that the symbols 
and voices attending the opening of these seals 
are intended to indicate to us 'm grand outline 
the distinctive characteristic of each thousand 
\'ear period, — Then, when the fourth seal was 
opened, at the time Christ came first, we natur- 
ally' look to see in the descriptive S3'mbol attend- 
ing it, the picture of Rome, that then ruled over 
all the earth. Any true picture of these times 
could not omit her historj-; so, when this fourth 
seal was opened, we find that the ^'pale liorse^^ 
went forth, signitVing how she should make 
the nations pale with fear; and death sat upon 
him, and hell followed in his train (^The power 
of evil being then at its highest tide point), and 
power was given unto them over the fourth 
part of the earth's population, which was killed 
by Rome's sword, and the pestilence and 
famine, that followed, and by wild beasts in the 
amphitheatres. 

As Rome's persecution had slain so 
man}' Christians, both under the Xeros, and 
under the popes, b}' the 3'ear A. D. locx), when 
this fifth seal was opened, this condition is set 
forth b}' the souls of those she had slain for 
the witness to the Truth — ''cr3'ing out for 
vengeance'' against her, but the}' are told to 



— 189 — 

rest or wait till later on when judgment will be 
given against her. 

When the sixth seal is opened, about the 
the year A. D. 2000, as then P^ome's linal dis- 
solution, and Christ's coming is near, we find, 
great '^Tribulations'' shadowed and set forth, 
in earthquakes that shall ''shake EVERY moun- 
tain, and ever island out of its place," and 
then shall be star showers, and the wicked look- 
ing for the great day of wrath, the vengeance 
that he promised when the fifth seal was 
opened, against those that have shed so much 
innocent blood, that is, against the Harlot clad 
in scarlet, with robes dyed in the blood of God's 
people from her beginning until her end. 
Then they cry, the great day of His wrath is 
come. As this is "the da}^ of Recompense for 
the controversy of Zion," and Rome sliall per- 
ish for her great part in this work, as the main 
factor in it, in the seventh Chapter, we see 
the coming Christ looming upright on the heels 
of this cry of agony, or in the very midst of it, 
and "sealing his people in their foreheads/' — 
in other words, marking his elect, and gather- 
ing them from their graves to go joyfully to 
Zion, with everlastinji; joy on their forclieads. 

vSo in these two chapters, as in all other 
places where Christ's coming is set lorth, we 
sec this controversv of Cod for Zion, and auainst 



— 140 — 

Rome, that lias cast her down long ago, and 
cast the Truth of Jesus to the earth, and 
^'practiced and prospered'^ in evil so long — ever 
preceding it — or, what is the same thing, when 
we see Rome's end S3mibolized, w^hether as the 
feet of clay^ or as the sixth seal opened, or other- 
wise, we see this Christ, ^'stone of Help," read}^ 
to begin this controvers}', and smite her on the 
feet, ere He ''fill the whole earth" with his 
dominion, as He shall soon after her fall, or else 
all these symbols, so vmltiplied in scripture con- 
cerning her, do ''lie so like Truth" that we 
must sttdtify our minds not to reach the conclu- 
sion that this beast power of Rome must fully 
die out in earth before Christ shall come; and 
the date I fix for that event, and that I think 
Daniel fixes, will give ample time for all these 
preceeding consummations, these tribulations, 
and the fallen Babjdon, and the man of sin 
(Pecci?) destroyed with the brightness of His 
coming, and that is the 3'ear A. D. 2370, or 2300 
3'ears after Titus "defiled the sanctuar\'," or as 
I have said in another place, maj^ be A. D. 
2333, — if we take Christ's o^itci/ixion as the 
defilement of the sanctuary or Temple of his 
body with his blood, that the Roman spearman 
poured out upon him. I shall ask the reader 
to examine these two chapters for himself full}^ 
and then draw his own conclusion as to whether 



— 141 — 

I am not probably right in tbese constructions 
and deductions as herein set down. 



Rev. 1 8th and igth Chapters. 

Chapter eighteenth sets forth how this 
Babylon of Rome had fallen, because there 
was found in her the ^^blood of saints and 
prophets," or teachers like Paul and Huss, and 
millions more like them, which she had shed — 
and after telling us of the alleleiuas of God's 
people, rejoicing at her fall, it immediately ad- 
vises us that the marriage time has come of the 
Lamb to his Bride, or the Millennial union of 
Christ to his people. The true church, when this 
great whore of Rome, that so long has falsel}^ 
claimed to be his sole Bride and church, 
has suffered the judgment of fire and destruc- 
tion. It then goes on to tell what kind of 
people shall constitute this church or ])ridc, 
sajdng of the Bride, it was granted to her to be 
clad in white (so much in contrast with the 
harlot's scarlet color of Rome's priestly maj;- 
nates!) which, white, robe is ''the righteousness 
of tlie saints;" — so, in this instance also, this 
symbol of the millennial union of those who 
shall inherit the earth, follows, as in evcrv other 
case in scripture, right upon the fall of the 
Harlot of Babylon, when her sorceries shall 



— 142 — 

bewitch no more, nor her false claim bewilder 
the minds of the people. 

2 Esdras nth and 12th Chapters. 

In these two chapters, to which again we 
call the special attention of the reader as a fnll 
length portrait of Rome by the pen of inspira- 
tion even down to the time of her end, — we 
find after the twelve wings of the eagle have 
vanished, or the twelve Caesars are off the stage 
of action, and after their empire has perished, 
the three heads that were ^'reserved for the 
last,'' and which symbolize the papal power or 
Holy Roman Empire, after many conflicts with 
each other, of German}^ against Italy, and 
France against Germany, and vice versa, the 
time arrives when there arises against this great 
one of Rome an ^'anointed one," a Lion, which 
may stand for the 'Xion of the tribe of Jndah,'' 
since it is called there, ''a Lion roaring ont of 
the wood, as it were" — or, as I have said in 
another place, it may stand perhaps for the 
British Lion at Waterloo, or for both co-operat- 
ing or conjoined in Holy Leagne; at any rate, 
this ^^anointed one" brought to an end this 
proud Eagle of Rome, and his hateful heads, 
and his fearful claws — so that, in time, the 
earth was refreshed^ and returned to joy in Him 
that had made her. In this case, I say, this 



— 143 — 

anointed one (Jesus, the Lord) may only have 
used England, under the symbol of a Lion, to 
finish, by Napoleon's overthrow, the Holy 
Roman Empire, or temporal power, for the most 
part at Waterloo, and may reserve for the 
^'brightness of His coming,'' who is the Lion 
of Juda's tribe, \\\^ full endoi this, ''man of sin'' 
(Pecci?) who to-day, although bereft of tem- 
poral power, represents the remnant of Rome, 
in his infallability, his so-called spiritual power, 
with which, he still rules, and is entangled in 
politics with all nations, and which rule Christ 
is yet to bring to a full end, by "the spirit of 
His mouth", His Truth. 



Now a few words as to the nature of that 
kingdom that the God of heaven shall set up, 
in the person of Jesus, as "God manifest in the 
flesh", who was brought forth for this very pur- 
pose, to scourge sin out of the world, with which 
the first Adam's trangression teintcd all the hu- 
man race, and to briugthe world back, as far as 
it might be done, in willing subjection to God 
the Father, onto whoui, it is said, this Jesus, who 
is NOT co-KQUAi. with the Father, but "onk with 
Him" in his spirit or disposition, and so, perfect- 
ly co-Operating with the Father in this good 
work of redemption; and when it is finished, 
this Holy one, who said. ]\Iy leather is GRi^ATi'lR 



— 144 — 

than I, (a truth which completely negatives the 
catholic assertion that Christ is con-substantial^ 
and so co-equal with the Father). — He, I say, 
will then yield 7tp the dominion over the earth, 
that He has won for him by His death and suf- 
fering, and life work, to ^'The Father of all spir- 
its," that when He, the son, thus comes into wil- 
ling subjection along with all things else, God 
the Father, the greatest and v/isest one, the 
Ancient of days, shall be ''all and in all.'' I 
find symbolized in Ezekiel 47:1-12, the fact that 
it will take 4000 years from the time He came 
for this purpose before Jesus shall complete it\ 
so that he can then truly say, '*now the king- 
dom of this world have become mine and His, 
and it is finished." Tpien, and not till then, 
A. D. 4000, will the earth be ready for her 
baptism of fire, and all the dead for final jttdg- 
ment of the ''great white Throne." 

At the end of this 4000 years period, when 
this Jesus Christ like a great River shall "over- 
flow all," and "cannot be passed over" any 
more, nor slighted, He shall be King of Kings, 
but we find after all his efforts at saving all 
that he can be saved, there will still be "bogs 
and miry places," as God calls them in Ezek. 
47, that are "given to salt", being nations so 
sunk in strong and vile corruption, that they 
would not even consent to hear the gospel 



— 145 — 

at all, being so barbarous and bestial. The 
reader will obtain from the ^'Diagram of 
Times" herein, my idea, as gathered from a 
careful study of scriptures, of the date of the 
millennium, and the subsequent events and 
eras to the end of the 4000 years of the strug- 
gle of Christ against the Dragon and his ''seat'' 
of Rome for supremacy in the earth, for I 
observe that, while Christ shall finally triumph, 
even after the millennium, or sabbathon, or great 
peace period of earth, in over, there will arise a 
great rebellion against His authority on earth 
on the part of the Avicked whom he rules with 
a rod of iron, and which He shall "put down 
like a valiant man," by the sword out of his 
mouth, calling dow^n from God hail and fire 
upon them for utter destruction, or sending 
among those that the Devil shall bring and 
gather in the" last end" to compass the camp 
of the saints about at Jerusalen, divisioji^ and 
confiict with each othe)\ so that the "sword of 
each shall slay his fellow," and ending the 
one-sixth rcvmant with fire sent upon them; 
Thus sweeping the earth, as it were, clear of 
the trash, and making ''a short work," as was 
promised long ago. 

This millennial time, as to (iod's people, 
I think beautifuly typified under the figure of 
the "sea of glass mingled with fire," and His 
10 



— 146 — 

people in the midst; which fire of God as it 
were flaming abont the border of this sea, or 
Habitation Holy, makes their defence secure^ 
and symbolizes the fact that ^^nanght shall 
hurt nor make afraid in all my Holy moun- 
tain." Also as to this sea of glass whereon 
those stood that ^'had the harps of God'' — or 
those that came up in the first resurrection^ 
the glass beautifully indicates a Holy or 
clean and smoothe place, and so one free from 
dust or other unholy defilement^ and separate 
from that which is earthy and corrupt. Thus 
is indicated by physical types, the holiness or 
cleanliness^ or rigJiteoicsness of those that shall 
be 'Svith the Lamb" on mount Zion, or in 
Palestine, occup3dng those ^^borders" so care- 
fully fet forth in Ezekiel; with Christ living in 
His glorious house or Temple at Jerusalem, as 
in a palace, where his ^Svindows are carbuncles'' 
— and all about Him so glorious that Soloman's 
Temple shall not be mentioned in the same 
breath with it; and no longer shall He be hiding 
behind the veil of the Temple, as the angel of 
God's presence dwelt in secret place, but face 
to face, shall be seen open and evident, and 
accessible to all his people — as a prince, kind 
and loving, and ruling in righteousness. He 
shall be among them — The Lord our Righteous- 
ness. That they shall have at that time ^Sdne- 



— 147 — 

dressers and husbandmen," in evident from 
scripture, but they shall be from among the 
sons of the stranger that is joined to Isi^ael^ 
that is, perhaps, real Christian men, but from 
among the Gentiles, for this salvation is to the 
]e,w Jirst^ and also to the Gentile; so that while 
the Gentile shall have good station, and his 
soul be satisfied with fatness, these hundred 
and forty-four thousand elect Jews that had the 
^^true faith of Abraham'' and were like him in 
their lives, shall be blest most of all, as the first 
fruits, and ^^for the father's sakes." It is evident, 
that during this thousand j^ear period thei'e will 
be no open rebellion among the heathen '^Gog 
and Magog" in the ^^four quarters" or remote 
from Palestine, for the good reason that there is 
no devil spirit loose in the world to tempt them 
to the foolish boldness of rebellion against 
Christ's rule, even though thc}^ are under 
tribute, or ''submit themselves with pieces of 
silver," so that God's people may be well sup- 
plied with all good things by this means, and 
so ''eat the riches of the Gentiles/' While 
these wicked shall thus be in subjection to 
Jesus, it shall be out of far, and not in love, 
for He shall "rule them with a rod of iron," and 
shall then pour out on them those first seven 
"one-third" woes, or partial judgments set 
forth in Revelation as the first to fall, and 



— 148 — 

concerning some of which we are told that 
they were commanded to fall on the wicked, 
but not on those who had the ^^seal of God in 
their foreheads/' which statement to me is 
clear proof that these first plagues fell after 
the ^'sealing time^^^ or the gathering of the elect 
there on earth, and so during the millennial 
period, and that these would have fallen on the 
elect, had they not been in a separate place, or 
had not the command been, to the angels har\'- 
ing these plagues in charge, that they should 
not fall where they would hurt anj^ in ''all the 
Holy Mountain," or those who were sealed 
with God's mark, His select ones. 

The reader will thus understand that I 
think this looo year sabbathon of God's elect 
a ^^dark and cloudy daif^ to those who are un- 
der God's wrath, and who were not ready for 
the Bridegroom; and this in great contrast to 
those ''with the Lamb," — dwelling in a "land 
of unwalled villages," secure in Palestine, living 
in joyful accord together, and "calling each his 
neighbor under the vine, and under the fig 
tree;'' in other words, these ''little ones" of 
Christ are loving, and social, and without 
suspicion and guile, as He urged them ever to 
be, and are living in "quiet habitations," and 
have mansions, gold, and silver, and cattle, but 
with "no sickness, pain, or death," and the 



— 149 — 

^'tears are wiped from all eyes," — since there is 
no occasion to weep, for there is no lack of any 
good thing; and also they need no walls^ for 
their Defender, that smote Sennacherib in the 
olden times, Jesus, the angel of His presence, 
Jesus is there, strong to defend, and deliver. 
All those living in Zion then are the circum- 
cised in heart of God, and no '^mcircumcised 
shall pass through smy more," to make trouble, 
for this Jerusalem is a ^^city of Peace," a real 
godly, a model cit}^, and they even have scrip- 
ture texts on the ^'bells of the prancing horses," 
and the name of it is '^The Lord is there." 
He that left it long ago, and delivered it to the 
Chaldeans and the Roman's to destroy it, and 
defile, is returned with mercies ''fr(an on high" 
to his ''Holy habitation," and is seen now face 
to face, no longer through a glass darkly, ot those 
that are His own. Tbe evil ones, uncircumciscd 
in heart, are kept at a distance, and while 
gnashing their teeth, and wishing to die 
oftimes, cann.ot; and under the ''rod ot ircui" 
that He wields over them arc impotent to 
harm, and have 'liad their day." 

Of course, this great multitude, liaviuiv 
the harps of God, and dwelling; in Zion, will 
die no more, being resurreeted Irom the dead; 
so, in accord with this idea, it is said "a clnld 
sluill be a hundred yc^ars old;'' in other words. 



— 150 — 

when a man had lived there in Palestine with 
Christ a hnndred j^ears, he is only a child 
in age as^it were, since he shall be with the 
Lamb forever and forever, eternal life the in- 
heritance of the saints. Even after the mill- 
ennial looo years is over, and until the end 
of the 4000 3^ ear period ''of the latter times," 
and so during all the era of the seven last 
plagues falling on the wicked, it is evident 
from the Word that these — holy ones of Christ 
will still be at Jerusalem, for when the devil is 
loosed he gathered his people for the final 
battle, and ^'compassed this camp of saints 
about'' till destroyed of Christ, and buried in 
the valley of Hamon Gog. During the period 
of about 630 years, which, I figure, will con- 
stitute the time from the end of millennium to 
the end of time, then will fall the seven last 
plagues on a rebellious atid blaspheming peo- 
ple, that at last, goaded to desperation, and 
led of the Devil, will even dare to tilt against 
the verj^ Buckler of God, the power of Christ 
on earth. When at the grand finale, about A. 
D. 4000 they shall perish as I have said, some 
1600 years after Christ's second advent; the}^ 
shall then be as as/ies under His feet, Vv^hich is 
proven to my mind b\' the ^'1600 furlongs 
over which space the blood flowed from the 
^Svinepress of wrath" that was trodden "oidside 



)) 



— 151 — 

the city/' or in the four quarters of earth, and 
not on the sea of glass, or in other words in 
Palestine, wherein is peace in all her borders, 
and Holiness. Some of the finest, and clearest 
references I find in the word describing this 
millennial glory, I here append. 

The meek shall inherit the earth, — Jesus 
said in Matt. 5th. 

EzkeielXXXVII:i3. 
And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have 
opened your graves, O! my people, and brought you out 
of your graves. 

This to the wicked; 'therefore is it that 
ye desire The day of the Lord? The day of 
the Lord is (To such as you) darkness, and not 
light, — as if a man fled from a lion, and a bear 
meet him, and he fled the bear, and ran into 
the house, and a scorpion stung him from the 
wall." 



To the Jews: 

Ezekiel XXXVI:2g-36, 

I will also save you from all your uncleanness: and I 
will call for the corn, and wine, and increase it, and lay 
no famine on you. 

And I will nuiltiply the fruit of the trees, and the 
increase of the field, that ye shall recieve no more re- 
proach of famine among the heathen. 

Thus saith the I^ord God; in the day that I shall 
cleanse you from your iniquities, I will also cause you to 
dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded. 



— 152 — 

And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay 
desolate in the sight of all that passed by. 

Then the heathen that are lett round about you (In 
the four quarters) shall know that I the Lord build the 
ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the 
Lord have spoken it, and will do it. 

See Ezekiel 40th chapter to 48 inclusive, 
as to the dimensions of the new Temple, or 
Palace of Christ, and the borders of the twelve 
tribes Avhen Jesus is among them as King of 

the Jews. 

Isaiah XXI: 12. 

Watchman, what of the night? The morning cometh 
(for God's elect) and also the night. TThe winepress of 
wrath for the wicked, a 1600 year period of "night.'') . 

See for grand description of the last great 
battle, about the 3'ear 4000 A. D., Ezekiel 38th 
and 39th chapters. 

Micah VII: 16. 

The nations shall see and be confounded at all their 
might: (The sixth seal opened) they shall lay their hand 
upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf, (by the noise 
of the "jarring spheres" confounded.) 

They shall lick the dust like a serpent, the}^ shall 
move out of their holes (as hidden in dens during the 
earthquake) like the worms of the earth: They shall be 
afraid of the Lord (Jesus) our God, and shall fear because 
of thee, 

(Yea, even the chief captains, and mighty 
men, the great ''Bulls of Bashan'' in the 
earth, shall quake in that dread day, w^hen the 
towers fall, and all pride is humbled.) 



Chapter 12. 



As TO Rome's Church in General. 



Clirist did not judge things by the sight of 
his eyes, that is, by the outside: the divine pene- 
tration of his all-wise |)erception pierced throngh 
all disguises, and beheld all things as in the 
splendor of noon. Thus seeing clear through 
all things, He judges an institution or subject 
by its centre, its interior and real nature, its 
spirit rather than its exterior and often deceit- 
ful aspect. Hence many things, seeming fair, 
and approved and ajiplanded of men, He waives 
aside as ^^chafif," and sets down as baneful. — 
No doubt the Jews in His time, who had not 
the spirit of God, beholding the then great 
church establishment at Jerusalem, with its 
solemn music, its long bearded and veneral)le- 
looking Rabbis and priests, its gorgeous cere- 
monies, and tlie so-called learning of the 
Jiabbinical schools, pointed to it witli pride, 
and venerated everything connected with it as 
divine. But Christ, under this seeming .sv)?n?</ 
exterior^ saw nothing but rottencss, naught but 
a mass of corruption. To Iliiii it was only a 



— 154 — 

huge machine, as it were, whose form rising 
aloft filled all the void air, but whose usefulness 
had passed awa}-. The Truths that made it 
sound in the beginning^ and of ^'saving healtJV^ 
to the people in David's time, had given place 
to the ^^traditions of men^'' under Avhich, as un- 
der a load of overlying rubbish, God's Law 
and Truth had been sriiothered out and made 
void. 

So it is to-day with the church of Rome that 
calls itself Christian, and Catholic, The church 
IX Rome, that Paul established, at the first, 
during the times of its persecution, consisted 
onh' of men, who holding the truth of Christ 
in its 'purity and simplicity, as Paul had taught 
them in his Epistles, were as true wheat fit for 
the garner, and as pure vessels of gold fit for the 
Masters use; but, in due time, this pressure of 
persecution passed awa}^, and under Constantine 
they were ''holpen with a little help," and, as 
we may sa}', the rotation of this Roman fan- 
mill^ or tribulation that had heretofore blown 
away out and separated from these the chaff 
that could not stand before the gales of disaster 
for Christ's sake, became slower and slower, and 
fainter and fainter in its power, and, at last, 
under some later emperors, rested entirely] and 
in those times to be a Christian at Rome 
gave one a pass-port to favor at court^ and 



— J55 — 

many begain to cleave to Christ 'Svith flat- 
teries," or falsity. Then the Devil began to 
get in his work; feebly at first, but later on 
more boldly. He said within himself, no 
doubt, '4ny weapon of Force will avail no 
longer against this Christ and His Church; 
then I must try my other choice weapon, so 
potent to cast down the Truth, — that of Fraud, 
and Disguise, of Error. I will establish a coun- 
terfeit church. I v/ill dress up as an ''Angel of 
Light," and soon will convert the church ix 
Rome of Christ into the church OF Rome, — a 
deception. I will come as a learnd one^ teac hi no- 
Christian doctrine. I will put on the ^ttisc of 
the Lamb J — the livery of the court of heaven, 
and sit down in what is looked to as the 
^'Temple of God," by my false teaching, skill- 
fuly blending a Utile paganism with ;;///r// 
of Christian trnth\ and so disguised^ they will 
mistake me for the Lamb^ for God on earth, and 
think it doctrines of the Christ I teach. I will 
thus rule^ and damn by skillfnill deception those 
I can no longer drive from the truth of Christ 
by fear of the sword; I will build up a great 
system oi apparently learned teaching, of great 
sounding words, mixing \\\ just euouoJi of pagan 
error and Idolatry with Christian truth, to per- 
fect a superb counterfeit. 1 w ill make a mixture 
of damnation — a strong;' delusion — a bewitching 



— 15G — 

S'/>rcery — a popidar doctrine for men of the 
world, and this counterfeit Christianity^ I will 
piibish from my c/m7rhes as the Truth of Christy 
and from that city whose prestige is so great in 
earth, as a centre, and in her great Roman 
name: and thus, craftily working, I will accom- 
plish the destruction of Christ, and his Truth, 
my adversary. And those seeking Him shall 
lienceforth often mistake my counterfit cJutrch 
for His True one, and my doctrine of confusion 
for His Truth^ and so shall ^^believe this splen- 
did lie" I have so glozed that the}^ will swallov/ 
it gladly, and be mj^ servants for ever, dying in 
sin^ and inheriting everlasting damnation^ in 
my hingdomy Thus, no doubt, this Arch- 
fiend, and enemy of Christ, The Dragon, or 
Devil, ruminated in his mind, and planned and 
founded this mighty, this State Church of Rome, 
which, as the times passed, drifted further and 
further away from the simple teaching of Christ, 
and, like the Pharisees church of old, brought 
in the ^^traditions of the elders," called the 
writing of the fathers^ and soon making them of 
equal import and authority with the Scriptures, 
buried God's truth clean out of sight, substitut- 
ing the creed^ and catechism^ and breviary^ works 
of men, for the ^'sincere milk of the Vv-ord," by 
his evil working. 

Thus was the true church of Christ in 



— 157 — 

Rome, founded by Paul the Apostle, — by a 
a skillful prestidigitation of the Evil One, 
changed into the Roman Catholic church, 
— Rome^s state creed^ miscalled a Christian 
religion, and backed by all the power of the 
state; and this is the Romanism of to-da}-, or 
what is commonly called, to avoid the odium 
that now attaches to the Roman name, the 
Catholic church. As a result of such an origin, 
we find, as we might naturally expect, a half- 
pagan mummery, with adjuncts of candles and 
crucifixes, substituted therein for the worship 
''in spirit and truth" Christ commended; not om- 
mitting also to substitute so-called good works, 
and m.orality, and penances, as the converting, 
and saving power for the soul, instead of faitli 
in Christ's sacrifice alone, and the leading of 
His spirit — the obedience of faith. How then, 
in view of these things, does Clinst regard her, 
this so-called Christian church? He judges 
her by her spirit^ wliich is worldly, and no 
longer His own. He penetrates her disouisi\ 
and stripping off her vain pretense of sanctity, 
calls her a ''Harlot,'' a cliurcli wliicli li:is de- 
filed herself \^y taking to her e))ilr,'ait the zcorld^ 
and its politics, and all its folly: and has shed 
blood in His holy name, soiling lier garments, 
that should be only the w liitc robes of peace, 
with the ojujic and soot of av/r. Alter all her 



— 158 — 

turning to the kings of tlie earth, she still calls 
Christ bv the sacred name of husband, but He, 

w/ 7 7 

as it were, turns his back on Her^ as a righteous 
man might upon his wife taken in adultry^ be- 
cause of Her entanglement with the world. He 
stamps her false claim to be called Bride as 
blasphemy^ and warns those that would join 
themselves to her that her mark is the ^4nark 
of the beast," that she has ^'her seat, and her 
authority" of the Devil or Dragon, His 
adversary. Her pretended friendship to Christ, 
that with such swelling adulation she ptiblishes 
to the v/orld, He abhors _ as a clinging disgrace 
to his name, and says, by reason of her, I the 
Truth, am ^'evil-spoken-of," among men. This is 
the judgment of God concerning her, — as .a 
great whore that sits on many waters. The 
early church in Rome, then, w^as of the true 
bride of Christ, till Satan, thus corrupting, it 
became in time this woman '^clad in scarlet," 
and ''drunken with the blood oi saints;" this 
latter is of his adversary the devil,— a counter- 
feit, and so-called Christian church; a monstrous 
deception to man}^, but repudiated of God in 
his whole world, as '^ Tares the enemy hath 
sowed." 



Some biblical pictures of the True Bride- 
The True Church — and Her Destiny; 



— 159 — 

Isaiah LIV:ii-ij. 

O! thou, afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not 
conforted. (Jesus, and His true Israel of God,) behold I 
will lay thy stones with fair colors, and thy foundations 
with sapphires. 

And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy 
.gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant 
stones. 

And all thy children (true Christians) shall be 
taught of the Lord; and great shall he the peace of thy 
children. 

Isaiah LIV:i-j. 

Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; (Jerusalem 
and Christ) break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou 
that didst not travil with child: for more are the children of 
the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith 
the lyord. 

(That is, these shall be more of God's peo- 
ple in Jerusalen of ChrisVs children^ begotten of 
His spirit, after her desolation by Rome is 
over, and at her restoration by Jesns in His 
coming again, than ever in-habited it in her 
prosperity before.) 

Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch 
forth the curtains of their habitation: spare not, lengthen 
thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes; 

For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on 
left, and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make 
the desolate cities to be inhabited (This is that great 
multitude, no man could luimber, with palms in their 
hands, John saw on the sea of glass.) 



— 160 — 

Zeph. Ill: i/f.-ig. 

Sing. O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad 
and rejoice with all thy heart, O! Daughter of Jerusalem. 

The Lord hath taken away thy judgments, he hath 
cast out thy enemy (Rome); the King of Israel, even the 
Lord, (Jesus, King of the Jew^s) is in the midst of thee: 
thou shalt not see evil any more. 

Behold, ai that time I will undo all that afflict thee: 
and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was 
driven out (by Titus); and I will get them praise and 
fame in every land where they have been put to shame. 
(With Israel according to the flesh, ''the 
remnant," shall be gathered also Israel accord- 
ing to the spirit, that is, all true Christians, 
who have been converted, or born again — who 
are called the ''circumcised in heart," and thus 
through Christ, adopted into the family of Israel; 
so Paul saj\s, not all are Israel that are 0/ Israel, 
or Jews according to the flesh. He is a Jew, in 
God's sight, who is a Jew imvardly^ or in other 
words, who is a Christian, or son of God — a 
man of ''Truth in the inward parts." 



Zec/i, ir.ii. 
And many nations shall be joined to the Lord in 
that day, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou 
shalt know that the Lord of Hosts hath sent me (Jesus, 
the *'sent of God") unto thee. 



Zech. VI:i2-ij. 
And speak unto Him, saying, Thus speaketh the 
Lord of Hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is 



— 161 — 

The Branch] (Jesus, the branch of God's planting) and 
He shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the 
Temple of the Lord; even he shall build the Temple of 
the lyord; and he shall hear the glory ^ and shall sit and 
v^de upon his throne: and he shall be a priest upon his 
throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between them 
both. 

(That is there shall be no conflict between 
his kingship and his priesthood^ nor between 
God the Father and the Son.) 



Zech. IX'.id-iy. 

And the Lord their God shall save them in that day, 
as the flock of his people; for they shall be as the stones 
of a crown, lifted up, as an ensign upon his land. 

For how great is his goodness, (of Jesus) and how 
great is his beauty; corn shall make the 3^oung men 
cheerful, and new wine the maids. (Then Christ also 
shall **drink it wew" with them in his kingdom, as He 
said ) 



Zech. XII:8, 

And in that day shall the Lord defend the inhabi- 
tants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them 
shall be as David; and the house of David (Jesus) shall be 
as God^ as the angel of the Lord before them, (as their 
leader and commander, the angel of God's presence.) 

And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will 
seek to destroy all the nations that annc aijaivi^t Jerusalem, 
(This probably is that battle o{ Jrhoshephat mentioned in 
some other places.) And I|vvill pour out \\\^o\\ the house 
of David, and upon tne inhabitants of Jerusalem, the 



— 162 — 

spirit of grace, and of supplications; and they shall look 
upon me (Jesus) whom they have pierced (whom they 
crucified long ago,) and they shall mourn for Him as one 
mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for 
him as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. 

(Shall then recognize that in rejecting 
Jesus they rejected that '^angel of the cove- 
nant," that was 'Svith the church in the wilder- 
ness," and that hro^igld them out of Egypt?) 

In that day these shall be a great mourning in Jeru- 
salem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley ot 
Megiddon. 

And I will bring the third part through the fire (of 
affliction by Rome) and will refine them as silver is re- 
fined and wall try them as gold is tried; they shall call on 
my name, and I will hear them: I will say, it is my peo- 
ple; and they shall say, the I^ord is my God. 



Zech. XlV.-g. 

And the lyord (Jesus) shall be King over all the 
earth: in that day, there shall be one Lord^ and his 
name one. 

(They shall see that there is no conflict of 
Jesus with God The Father, but that Jesus per- 
fectly represents Him, and is ^'one with Him" 
in spirit, ruling by His authority, and in His 
name.) 

Zech. XIV:2i, 

And in that day there vshall be no more the Canaa- 
nite in the house of the Lord of Hosts. 



— 163 — 



(These wicked shall be kept separate^ in 
THE four quarters of the earth, ready for the 
falling plagues that shall overtake them, till 
they shall desire to die but shall not be able.) 



Rev. VII: 12^-17. 

And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, 
what are these which are arrayed in wliite robes? And 
whence come they? 

And he said unto me these are they which came out 
of great tribulation (Rome's persecution, and all oppres- 
sion) and have washed their robes white in the blood of 
the lyamb. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst 
any more, neither shall the sun light on them nor any 
heat, for the Lamb whicli is in the midst of the Throne 
shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains 
of water, (no drouth to desolate Palestine any more) and 
God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. 

(Note that this occured just after the open- 
ing of the sixth seal, probably about A. D. 2000, 
and as soon as those ''Tribulations'' or earth- 
quakes etc, which Jesus told them should/;rr6v/^ 
his coming had passed by.) 



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Chapter 13. 

Tpe Doctrines of Rome Church Adverse 
TO Jesus and His Teaching. 

God said in his word that Rome (under the 
Papacy by her teaching, under the Empire b}^ 
her sword) should ''cast the truth to the 
ground.'' Here I purpose to state briefly some 
of Rome's teaching from the creed of Pius the 
Fourth, which she still accepts, and f^/;//^r^ them 
with those of Chj^ist, as we find them set forth 
in the gospel, and ??iani/ested in His life; for 
Jesus was the o?ie teacher who lived the doc- 
trines he taught, and died for them also. Jesus 
condemned, as we have said before, the Pharisee 
church in his day because they had ''made void 
the law uf God by their tj-aditions^' that is by 
the commentaries of the Rabbis, and the writing 
of Doctors, who sought to tickle the fancy of 
the people for popularitj-'s sake, by warping 
the law of God to suit themselves. The}' said 
in effect, "cause the Hol}^ one of Israel to depart 
from before us;" his law is an offence to us, — 
we would walk in the 'S'ain imagination of our 
own hearts," 



— 165 — 

This same charge is equally true against this 
Romish church, which, in this creed of Pius the 
Fourth distinctly calls on all who subscribe to it, 
and join their church, to ^''accept and e77tbrace^' 
not only the ^^aposiicaV^ traditions, or writings, 
but the ^'ecclesiasticaP^ as well; that is thej^ 
thus put the writings, which they call ^^of the 
fathers" of their church, at par with the gos- 
pel of Christ as delivered by the Apostles. Of 
these writings of the fathers there are some 
sixty large volums so accepted, and of these no 
two are hardly agreed on any proposition or 
doctrine. So that with this rubbish of con- 
fusion they have obscured and covered up the 
gospel and plain teaching of Christ so deep 
that no one can ^^find his way" to the truth as 
it is in Jesus, the converting truth. Hence in 
their worship they come under the condemna- 
tion of that scripture which says to them ^^in 
vain ye worship me, teaching for doctrines the 
commandments of menr Thus have they made 
void the law of God through their fables and 
traditions, and their teaching is far from the 
^''simplicity of Christ," — endless genealogies, 
and so is '4'ollcd in tangles" as it were, and a 
mass of confusion. This is one reason why she 
is called Babylon, no doubt; because her teach- 
ing is confusion^ which is the meaning of the 
worn Babel or Babylon. 



— 166 — 

Another thing of great error they teach is 
justification bj' zoorks alone without conversion, 
and, with them, good works consist principall}' 
in penances, — beating the back, and climbing 
straircases on the knees, and the like, rather 
than ill that so essental 'v//^7r//v/' or Love out 
of a pure heart, which leads us to ''do unto 
others as we would they should do to us.'' 

Paul said that salvation was of grace (or 
piire favor^ not as of debt from God to us, as 
the}' make it bj' their doctrine of justification 
b}' works alone. The good works acceptable to 
God are ont of a converted souL It is is said 
in scripture, "not by works of righteousness that 
we have done,'' but throught the Lord our 
Righteousness comes salvation, ''lest any man 
shoidd boasiy^ as if God had given them salva- 
tion as a return and in pay for their services or 
their good actions, thus leaving Jesus and his 
sacrifice out of the account entireh\ The 
whole scripture from begining to end iterates 
and reiterates, bj^ grace, or pure favor, are ye 
saved, through faith in Christ and his acceptable 
sacrifice, yet not of 3-ourselves; it is the^/// of 
God to those who accept Jesus alone as 7naster^ 
serving Him in the spirit. In this connection, 
and as a corollary' sequence of this their doc- 
trine of justification b}' zvorks, they teach 
what is called the doctrine of stipererogation; 



— 167 — 

which means that a man b}^ doing a certain 
amonnt of good works, like penances etc., can 
so pay all his debt to God and more of obedience 
than is due, so that he will thus put God under 
obligation or debt to him^ as it were, and thus 
having a large stock of holiness laid up with God 
by these extra works, that he may check on it, as it 
were, as a man does his bank account, and until 
it is all exhausted by committing counter sins, 
or by works of evil; so they imagine thus to bal- 
ance the account, and be square with God. If, as 
the scriptures teaches the merit of Christ 
ALONE, and His full and acceptable sacrifice 
for sin alone can purchase our salvation, it 
must follow that this grand doctrine of sup- 
ererogation is a monstrous fraud and delusion, 
that, acted on, will make men neglect accepting 
Christ by faith^ and so go to hell in their sins. 
As contrary to this error, Christ said, when we 
have done all we are but unprofitable servants 
to God. 



Then as to worshiping the images of 
saints, and the Virgin, and prayers to the 
same, — it is as clearly idolatry as that of the 
pagans, for God clearly said, make xo image, 
or likeness of anything to worship il. Christ 
taught men to worship in spirit and in trnlh, 
saying, god seeketh such to worship llini. In 



— 168 — 

no instance do we find Christ or his apostles 
setting any snch example of saint worship, or 
image w^orship; indeed we find them teaching 
not to have men's persons in admiration, or 
adoration; and John on Patmos when he w^as 
about to worship the glorious angel that 
showed him the Revelation, Avas told, see thou 
do it not; worship God alone. And God we are 
told is a jealous God, and will not thus share 
his glory with another, — so that in this teach- 
ing also, Rome clearly is at variance with 
Christ, or is Antichrist. God commends the act 
of Hezekiah in destroying that most venerable 
relict, the brazen serpent when, under the 
name of Nehushtan, the people had taken to 
v>^orshiping it. Certainly if any ^'sacred relict" 
might be properly worshipped this might. 
But the wonder is that any one should seek to 
justify any such acts of idolatry which the 
scriptures so overwhelm with condemnation. 
But of course this sale of relicts, which are 
blessed by the priest, is a source of great 
revenue to Rome, and so the motive for this false 
doctrine is apparent; and then besides ancient 
Rome was full of statuary, and art so-called 
had to be fostered out of a worldly ambition 
and pride. 



— 169 — 

Purgatory, or a state of the dead after 
death, wherein they rest, and where the}' ma}^ 
repent, or where prayers may change their con- 
dition, and elevate those to heaven who had 
died in their sins; this Rome teaches. 

Christ taught, ^4iow is the accepted time,'' 
and the ^^axe is laid to the root of the trees, 
and every tree that brings not forth good fruit 
is hewn down, and cast into the fire," where he 
said the 'Svorm dieth not, and the fire is not 
quenched." Christ also taught that if men re- 
mained unconverted, and died in their sins 
where He was (in Heaven), they could not 
come, and held out no word of hope to those 
who, failing to submit to the work of regenera- 
tion here, and accept him alone as Master, died 
in their sins, and were without hope. This 
doctrine of purgatory then is an incentive to 
men to continue in sin that grace may aboud, 
or in the hope to find favor after death, — a vain 
delusion. For Paul said to such, how can we 
that are dead to sin, (the man who has received 
Christ truly, is dead to sin; siu lialli no uun-c 
rule over him.) How can we live any louger 
therin? Well bath the scripture said that those 
who delude mcu with such unfounded hopes 
for the sake of the money th(^\' get out of their 
prayers for the dead, (for this is the motive for 
teaching this false and damning doctrine) well 



— 170 — 

hath God pointed out, that this false church 
thus ^'trafficks in the souls of men," and makes 
merchandise of men, and through covetousness. 
The blind leading the blind, both perish 
thus in their error. There being in fact no 
purgator}^, but after death the judgment, and 
these dying in sin, and not ready for it, will 
find too late their delusion, and that they have be- 
lieved a lie that they may be damned. O! This 
fatal delusion that hath ruined so many! Who 
would fail to oxy aloud then and put up a sign, 
as it were; at the mouth of this pit of damnation, 
and cry out, danger! danger! the ^vay to Hell!! 
Christ then taught the ver}^ reverse of Purga- 
tory, and hence this doctrine seeks to cast the 
trtith to the ground^ for the sake of the filthy 
lucre it brings. O! How long shall men thus 
walk, blindfolded of Rome, into Satan's snares, 
— ^^drinking strong delusion, to make, and be- 
lieve a lie." 



The pope claims to be the vicar, or substi- 
tute, of Christ on earth, (vicarius filii Dei,) and 
so to be the present Mediator between God 
and man; whereas the scripture says dis- 
tinctly, ^'there is one God, and one mediator 
between God and man Jesus Christ the right- 
eous^' — so he is clearW ustirping the place of 
Jesus in this, his blasphemous claim. It might 



— 171 — 

be asked wlio then does represent Christ while 
he sits at the right hand of the Father. The 
answer is clear, — Christ, ere he left, told his 
disciples who should represent him — the Spirit 
of Truth, or Holy Spirit, or comforter, which 
he said should come, and be in the hearts of all 
believers, to ^^lead them into all Truth," and to 
do for them 2.S guide the same he had done by 
his advice and example while here. 

So that this pope, when claiming to be the 
sole infallible interpreter of the word of God to 
the people, has also usurped the function that 
Christ said the Spirit of God should come to 
perform for his true church, and which it has ever 
performed, leading them unto all Truth so 
perfectly that they needed no man, and least 
of all some wicked and dominering pope, to 
teach them. So it was said of Christ in the 
old scripture, ^^All thy people shall be taught 
of God." This then Christ taught to be the 
^'infallible" guide to faith and truth, not any 
pope or Rabbi, but the spirit of Truth in the 
true Christian's heart, guiding him unto all 
truth. This pope claims to be also the prince 
of the apostles, a great ''Rabbi," or sf^iritua! 
7nast€7% and seeks to be called "God on earth,'' 
and "Holy Father;" contrary to which Christ 
tauj;lit his ])Cople not to "call any man Rabbi/' 
and no one leather but God, the r'allicr of all 



spirits. But says some one, is not the Pope the 
successor of St. Peter, and did not Christ say he 
would build his Church on Peter? The answer 
is, even if he said he vrould build it on Peter — 
he never once said, '^and on his successors'^^ and 
it is also certain he never spoke of building on 
Peter more than on any other apostle^ but on 
that great central Christian truth which Peter 
uttered.— ^^Thou art the Christ of God." 

Christ himself was ^^the corner stone elect, 
and precious," on which the true Christian was 
to build, and model his life, as ^^livel}- stones" 
in the same building wherein the apostles and 
prophets were also foundation stones. — but 
Christ the chief co7nier-stone. This was the 
^'stone set at naught by the builders, which 
became the head of the corner, and a stone of 
stumbling, and rock offence'^ to many, and to 
Rome and her false church most of all. Christ 
with all his wisdom would never have left such 
authojHty as that claimed b}^ the popes to de- 
cend to wicked men b}' the uncertain declara- 
tio7i of one donbtfnl text. Rome's construction 
of this text sets at naught all the rest of scrip- 
ture, and the spirit of all its teaching. Had 
the Lord sought to make any apostle chief, 
certainl}^ John the beloved, who '^rested in his 
bosom," and to whom he committed the work 
of closing the vision and prophesy, in his 



— 173 — 

glorious Revelation to him on Patmos, and to 
whom He committed his mother on the cross; 
this divine one would certainly have had the 
p7^ecedence^ rather than the hasty and denjung 
Peter, had Christ marked any for ^'Prince." 
But he told them, ''he who would be first, let 
him be servant of all," and we fi.nd in Revela- 
tion that when the church is symbolized as a 
city, it had twelve foundations^ the twelve apos- 
tles of the Lamb. And as to the ke3^s given 
St. Peter, v/e find Christ told all his disciples 
the same, whom YE bound shall be bound, and 
whom ye loose shall be loosed, which is just as 
applicable for every true disciple to-day as it 
was for them, and meant; when the world shall 
wrong 3^ou do no wrong in return, but follow 
the way of God, and in faith look to God for 
revenge, and He will avenge you, or bind your 
adversary in time and for eternity in chains 
of darkness, unless he repent. B}^ innocence 
put your enemy in the wrong, and God will in 
your behalf bind him evermore. 

It is Christ alone that it is the true key 
keeper; He shuts and no man opens, opens, 
and no man can shut. He alone is the wa}', 
He alone the door to the shee[)fold; and if 
Peter himself sought to enter in some other 
way he would be detected as a thief and a 
robber. What shall we say then? Only tliis; 



— 174 — 

that the Pope of Rome is a false clamiant, a 
great seducing spirit, and so an antichrist, and 
perhaps the greatest that is or shall be, a real 
adversar}', but false pretended frieyid^ to Christ; 
and has his power from His Adversary, the 
Devil. 

P'urthermore, take Her doctrine of ex- 
treme unction; whoever found in the scripture 
where Christ or the apostles marked with oil 
on a dying man with the purpose in some v/ay 
of bettering his fiitnre state. Then as to for- 
bidding the Clergy to marrj-; we find Christ 
teaching that it was a good thing for men 
voluntarily to make themselves eunuchs for 
the kingdom of heaven's sake, and yet we are 
told also that marriage is honorable if the bed 
be undefiled; and again, let each who chooses 
have his own wife to avoid fornication, so that 
a refraining from marriage is not laid on men 
as a burden; but so voluntarily to act is good 
for those who, led of the spirit of God, are able to 
contain, and so seek to keep themselves un- 
spotted even in this, in order the more fully to 
serve God in the w^orld. And then their great Pet- 
er himself we know was a married man. Then 
again all this ascetic life, and hiding away in 
cloistered nunneries is contrar}^ to what Christ 
taught in his pra3'er for his disciples, saying; 
Father, I ask not that these be taken out of the 



— 175 — 

world but that they be kept from the evil of 
the world; and again, ye are the salt of the 
earth; and He tells us, let your light so shine 
that men seeing your good works may glorify 
God. As a city set on a hill we are to be, as ex- 
amplars among men, exemplars as husbands, as 
merchants, as citizens, in all things glorifying 
God; not hiding our talents in a napkin, and 
lazily hiding in cloisters, and secret places. 
Christ refused to meddle in the politics of 
his time, as is manifested by his answer to 
those who asked: shall we give tribute to Ceasar? 
But this church of Rome, wiih the very reverse 
spirit, entangles herself in the polities and 
policies of every nation under heaven, and has 
in all ages been the principal fomenter of wars, 
and discord, whenever she has seen any ap- 
parent opening for aggrandizement or increase 
of her power thereby. 



Compare then, in every way, this great 
proud, rich, ostentatious, ecclesiastical estab- 
lishment and monarcy of Rome with such a 
church as the meek and lowly Nazarene sought 
to establish in earth, and who can fail to note 
the contrast. Her popes dwelling in a palace of 
6000 rooms, and flashing all over with jewels, 
clad in purple, and rolling in ostentation, w ilh 
men kissing his toe, and bowing down to him 



— 17G — 

as to a god. His cardinals clad in scarlet, 
prond, ambitious, and hauglit}^, with mouths 
speaking great things, full of threatning and 
curses, laying heavy 3^okes upon the people; 
forever shearing the sheep v/ith exactions, and 
never feeding them with the sincere milk of 
the word. Look to histor}^ look to prophecy, 
look abroad in the world to-day, and study this 
great power at Rome, and who can do other- 
wise than conclude that it does not represent 
the Christ whose cross in on its spires, nor 
His doctrine; that it is XOT the true Bride of 
Christ, the true church with the spirit of the 
Lamb manifest in it, but that it is in fact that 
great Harlot clad in scarlet that is entangled 
with the kings of the earth, and is that beast 
which, while having two little horns like a 
Lamb, in order the better to decieve and ap- 
per Lamblike and Christian, yet forever mani- 
fests its true spirit when it speaks, and ever 
speaks like the Dragon, or Devil, whose servant 
and bride she is in fact. Woe to those who 
are decieved by her, and take her mark, for 
God says they become partakers of all the sin 
that History and Fact lay to her charge, and 
that, with her, they shall find torment forever 
and ever, since thus the}' bid her God speed, 
and sanction her works. Woe to those who 
make confedency with this one, that ^^hy peace 



— 177 — 

shall destroy" them. Godsays/'come out of her 
and be separate, my people," lest her plagues 
fall upon you, for the time of her destruction 
draweth nigh. And it was to iterate and re- 
iterate this cry of God to the nations, in the 
hope that some might hear and heed the call, 
that this little book has been written, — which, 
if God send his blessing, the truth it contains 
shall not fall to the ground void, but shall pros- 
per in that where unto He has sent it. Even so, 
come. Lord Jesus, come, that the earth may 
be refreshed, and the meek have their inheri- 
tance, which Rome hath so long withholden, 
and hath ''cast the truth to the ground." 



Chapter 14. 
Brief Synopsis of Symbols Collated 



The four Universal Empires, — Babylon, 

Medo-Persia, Grecia, and Rome. 

The g^reat image of a) -^-^ 

• r 4. L Dan. 2:31-43. 

man, m lour parts. ) o -to 

The four great Beasts. } Dan. 7. 

The four horns,) ^ 1 o 

J ^7 Zech. 1:18-21. 

and carpenters. ) 

Four men and horses,) rv 1 o 

^1 ^ '> Zech. 1:8-11. 

among m3'rtle trees. ) 



Babylon, or Nebuchadnezzah's kingdom: 
Head of gold. ^ Dan. 2:32 and 37 and 38. 
Lion-like beast with eagles wings. <[ Dan. 7:4. 
First horn, of Zech. 1:18-21. 
The red horse, of Zech. 1:8-11. 



Medo-Persian, of Cyrus. 
Bear with three ribs in his mouth. { Dan. 7:5. 
Breast and arms of silver. { Dan. 2:32-39. 
Ram with two horns, one^ y. ^. __ 
higher than other. ^ • -3 /• 

Second horn, of Zech. 1:18-21. 
Speckled horse, of Zech. 1:8-11. 



— 179 — 
Grecia, Macedonia, or, of Alexander . 



Belly and thies of brass. } Dan. 2:32 and 29. 
Leopard with four wings) j^ ^. 
and four heads. ) * *' * 

He goat, with notable) j^^^^ g _g 
horn between eyes. ) • -o • 

Third horn, of Zech. 1:18-21. 
White horse, of Zech. 1:8-11. 



The ForLr minor kingdoms, succeeding to 
Alexander's, viz.; of Lyimachus, Ptolem}^ 
Seleucas, and Cassander, — being a continua- 
tion of the same. 



The four wings, and four) j^ .0 

heads, of the Leopard. ) • /• • 

Four notable horns toward the four ] 

winds of heaven, that sprang up } Dan. S : 8. 
when the great horn was broken. J 



The two notable kingdoms immediately 
preceding that of Rome, viz.; the kingdom of 
Syria, or of the Selucidae, and the kingdom of 
Egypt, or of the Plolemies. 



Syria, ''King of the north.'' } Dan. 11:6-15. 
Egypt, ''King of south." ^ Dan. 11:5-15. 



— 180 — 
Rome, as a whole. 



The ten horned beast, ^ j^ 

and the little horn. \ ' *' 

The beast, and Harlot npon it. \ Rev. 17. 

The Eagle with twelve ^2d Esdras, nth and 

wings, and three heads. \ 12th chs. 

The fourth horn. { Zecli. 1:18-21. 

The red horse. \ Zech. 1:8-11. 



Pagan or Imperial Rome. 



The ten horned diverse beast. \ Dan. 7:7. 

The little horn that waxed) ^^ ^. 

great toward the south, etc. \ ' '^' 

The leg^s of iron of) y^ 1 

. 1 . ^ , . > Dan. 2:%^ and 40. 

this great image. ) ^^ ^ 

The leopard, bear, and lion, ^ 

mixed beast, with seven J> Rev. 13:1-10. 

heads, and ten horns. J 
The scarlet colored beast, that) j. 
carried the whore of scarlet. ) ' '*^* 

The Eagle with ^2d Esdras, parts of chapters 
twelve wings. \ 11 and 12. ' 



Short symbols of Papal Rome — Rome's so- 
called spiritual Dominion, or The Holy Roman 
Empire, with the popes its real head; and also 
its present condition. 



— 181 — 

The little horn with eyes ^ 

and mouth of a man, that K^ q , ^ 

1 ^ ^1.* .--L ^ I Dan. 7:8 to ii and 

spake great things, that } ' 

plucked up three of the | "^ '^^' 

ten horns by the roots. J 

The feet and toes of] 

this image, part iron, > Dan. 2:33, 41 and 43. 

and part clay. ) 

The great whore with the " 

cup of abominations, clad • y^ ^ 

• 1 ^ ^- 4-1, > Rev. 17:4-6. 

m scarlet, resting on the f ' ^ 

ten horned beast. J 

The Lamb-like beast, with ^ 

two little horns like a lamb, I -n • _ H 

No. 666, which spake like a f ' ^' 

Dragon. J 

The three heads of the ) r^ . r j t:^ j 
1 .. , u 4 J n ( Parts of and bsdras, 

eagle, that rested," or > ,. ^ . 1 . . ' 
•^ 1 ..-II T-- J ( nth and 12th chapts. 

waited till his end, ; ^ 

The Babylon Harlot. { Rev. 17. 



Short symbols of the Fifth Universal Do- 
minion, that of Christ on earth, in the millen- 
nial reign. 



She stone cut out with- ^ 

out hands, that filled the \ ^ 1 _ 

1 1 \.^ r. '^ ! Dan. 2:^^4-", S and . 4- 

wliole earth, after smit- > ^^^ ^^ ^ ^ 

/I c 

ing the great four-fold I ^'^' 
image on its feet. J 



— 182 — 

The Man to whom the Father ( 

gave the everlasting kingdom, < Dan. 7:13-14. 

after the fonrth beast. ( 

The Lion ont of the wood — ^ 

the Lion of Jndah, that ! 2dEsdras, part of 

destroyed the twelve winged f 11 and 12 chapt. 

eagle. J 

Horseman on white horse. ^ Rev. 19:19-20. 

MicheaL the Prince) ^-^ 

r 1 > Dan. 12:1. 

01 my people. ^ 

Lamb onMonnt Zion,) ^ , _o 

with great mnltitnde.^ * ^' 

Reaper with sickle,) p 

gathering his elect. ^ * ^' ^ ^' 

Treader of winepress of wrath) Rev. 14:20 and 

— in the millennium. ) Rev. 6:15-17. 



Even so, come Lord Christ, come Stone of 
Help, that Rome may no longer be the source 
of abominations, and for tribulation to those 
who love the Truth as it is in Jesus. Amen. 



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